Mystery of the sasquatch revealed!

I know, this is petty. But it serves a point. Of sorts.



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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday declared "complete confidence in his top political adviser, Karl Rove, despite his alleged role in leaking a covert CIA operative's identity, according to an interview.

Federal investigators are trying to determine who outed covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose name first appeared in a column by newspaper journalist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003.

"Karl's got my complete confidence. He's a valuable member of my team," Bush said in his strongest defense yet of Rove, the architect of his presidential campaigns.

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WASHINGTON - President Bush said Monday he believes schools should discuss “intelligent design” alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life.

During a round-table interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers, Bush declined to go into detail on his personal views of the origin of life. But he said students should learn about both theories, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported.

“I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought,” Bush said. “You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.”

Whew. Stands by his crooked puppetmaster, but isn't so sure about all that fishy "smience" stuff. You've got to wonder what he'd think of teaching the creation myths of the ancient Greeks or Norsemen. Native Americans? Kushites? Babylonians? Egyptians? They're different ideas, after all, and we wouldn't want to be close-minded...

UPDATE: You know, it took me a while to figure out what it was that bothered me about that science vs. creationism news story. And here it is: the story mentions teaching students "about the creation of life." But as we all know, evolution has nothing to do with the origins of life on earth. Only creationism purports to "teach" the origin of life. Huge difference, and further evidence of how careless and lazy journalists are these days. The article even notes that intelligent design is an attempt to refute the notion that life could develop through a process of evolution. So... intelligent design allegedly shows evidence of the creation and development of life. Evolution only addresses development. Apples and oranges? No, wait. Newtonian apples and road apples. Ha.