Palin does not participate in aerial hunting, something which can be ascertained on rather more objective sites.

Palin advocates aerial hunting.

Still bitter about Hillary, eh?

I think Obama is a world class hypocrite and I loathe Biden but the other two are much worse. I'll be holding my nose so hard it hurts in the voting booth.

This is something no other US state has accomplished.

Palin has only been in office a couple of years, it takes time to wipe out all the predator species in an area as big as Alaska.

And speaking of size, Alaska is by far the largest state and has a population about the same as Memphis TN.. We aren't exactly comparing apples with apples here.

the less enlightened family members I have who think voting McCain/Palin may be a good idea don't give a shit about wolves.

And if they are anything like my less enlightened family members they don't give a shit about much of anything else except themselves and maybe unborn fetuses (feti?).

I wouldn't worry about them, I'm not worrying about mine, they are so far beyond hope that the light from hope won't reach them for ten billion years.

Anything Wolfslayer Barbie wants is God’s plan. Wolfslayer Barbie knows what God wants.

God wants brave mighty hunters to chase wolves with airplanes until they drop from exhaustion.

Then God wants brave mighty hunters to shoot the mommy and daddy wolves.

Then God wants mighty brave mighty hunters to leave the wolf babies to die of hunger, God doesn’t want brave mighty hunters to waste ammunition.

Wolfslayer Barbie knows God’s mind.

God loves Wolfslayer Barbie.

Wolfslayer Barbie makes the Baby Jesus smile.

You are aware, I'm sure, that Texas has a huge influence on school textbooks in the USA?

Texas is hardly a bastion of science and rationality, I lived there briefly and found it even more intellectually stultifying than my own current southeastern state, hard as that is to imagine.

I read the IHT article you linked to and found the title a trifle misleading, it wasn't really about Intelligent Design, just creationism vs evolution.

The subjects of the experiment detailed were somewhat self selected as college level students in one of the sciences, specifically biology. I'm not sure that college biology students can really be said to fairly represent all American HS students with respect to ability to follow fairly complex arguments.

The problem I see with putting creationism in parallel with evolution in HS science curricula is that the creationists will not stand for having creationism attacked in the classroom. I can foresee a great many lawsuits and the like complaining of their religious freedoms being ignored.

And then where do you stop? The next thing will be someone wanting the Ptolemaic theory of the heavens taught alongside the Copernican one.

Poe's Law: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.

And therein lies the rub, there are so many different sects of fundies, all of whom have slightly different but non compatible versions of "creationism".. Which version will you use in the classroom?

There is a quote I've been trying to find, apparently I don't recall it exactly enough for Google to do its thing but it goes something like this.

"It's not that there is a consensus in America for freedom of speech so much as there is a lack of consensus as to just which speech to ban."

It always struck me as true and it irritates me that I haven't a clue who said it, I was thinking it might have been Twain but I've been unable to find any reference at all.

Book banning has a long and glorious history in the land of the free, I can remember when "banned in Boston" pretty much meant an automatic read for a young guy with more testosterone than brains.