Slate’s Jack Shafer, whom I’m guessing is a Boomer, is looking for the first sign that Xers have arrived in positions of power in the media... by which he seems to mean the print media, because the rise of Xer Anderson Cooper at CNN is pretty much the first nail in the coffin of Boomers in TV news, I think. So he polled a bunch of under-40 journalists (not me, alas) about what they think will be that Boomer death knell in print:
Pennsylvania dumps "intelligent design," but Kansas embraces it. Two steps forward, one step back. Meanwhile, The Revealer looks at why it should be called malevolent design:
The Designer who so Intelligently Designed our world, in theory, could be malevolent or capricious just as easily as he could be all good. He might have designed us intelligently, but for the purpose of watching us tear each others' throats out. He might have designed us intelligently, but on a whim, and then forgotten all about us. In theological terms, ID suggests forces operating upon the world from without, but it does not say whether that those forces are good or evil. You could hypothesize, for example, that a Satanist could step forward to support ID. Yes, the world shows evidence of an intelligent designer, but one with a sick sense of humor. Therefore, the Satanist might conclude, Intelligent Design is correct, and we should worship the Devil, since the world seems more like his handiwork than the Other Guy's.
Is it just me, or:
Cthulhu or the Flying Spaghetti Monster -- is one a worse deity than the other?
As always, The Onion has the most excellent final word:
As an ill-informed pseudo-intellectual with a particular interest in the unverifiable, I'm always on the lookout for some partially thought out misinformation. So, if you have an uninformed solution to a dilemma that doesn't actually exist, don't bother double-checking your information. I'm all ears.
