Subject: Re: Sweet Home case
Date: Jun 29 12:49:38 1995
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


>Burton Guttman writes:
>
> > It makes it possible for assholes like Scalia and Thomas to rise to the
> > highest judicial position in the country, make life and death decisions
> > about the welfare of humans and of the whole planet,
>
>Isn't that what people call the american dream ? :-)

>Serge Le Huitouze

No, the American dream as envisioned was a good thing, involving economic
as well as social equality. Americans are just people, and *people* the
world over have the potential to foul (and foul up) anything they get their
hands on.

Speaking of Americans, and speaking of "God bless America," as you wrote,
Burt, I was just reading that the good old U. S. of A. is the only Western
country in which a sizable part of the population doesn't believe in
evolution. Why am I not surprised? The afore-mentioned justices come to
their positions with pronouncements of piety and, I would guess, a plethora
of prejudices that would make any militiaman smile.

I know this isn't birds either, but the Internet is a place to communicate
attitudes and feelings as well as knowledge and information, and the more I
know, the more I feel.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
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