[snip] “The Vatican has never really come to terms with evolution,” writes Paul Varnell in the Chicago Free Press (September 8). “To say genitals were ‘intended’ for procreation ignores the fact that genitals, like the rest of our bodies, evolved as they did because they were more efficient means of reproduction than other means. Nothing about their development in the random mutation and natural selection process of evolution requires or implies any ‘intention’–or precludes their use for other purposes. The mouth evolved as an efficient way to eat, but people also use it to talk, sing, whistle and suck venom from snakebites.”
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[snip] “The truth is that the current administration is not the most disastrous in our history,” writes Robert McElvaine, professor of history at Millsaps College, on the online History News Network (September 20). “George W. Bush’s record on running up debt to burden our children is only the worst since Ronald Reagan. His record on government surveillance of citizens is only the worst since Richard Nixon. His record on foreign-military policy has gotten us into only our worst foreign mess since Lyndon Johnson sank us into Vietnam. His economic record on job creation is only the worst since Herbert Hoover. His record of tax favoritism for the rich is only the worst since Calvin Coolidge. His record of trampling on civil liberties is only the worst since Woodrow Wilson or perhaps John Adams.”
[snip] By the numbers. According to jobwatch.org, the Bush administration expected 4,284,000 jobs to be created nationwide between June 2003 and August 2004. Jobs actually created during that time: 1,616,000.
