Where is my FSM when I need him?

FRESNO, California (AP) -- A rural high school teaching a religion-based alternative to evolution was sued Tuesday by a group of parents who said the class should be stopped because it violates the U.S. Constitution.

Frazier Mountain High in Lebec violated the separation of church and state while attempting to legitimize the theory of "intelligent design" by introducing it as a philosophy class, according to the federal lawsuit filed by parents of 13 students. The teacher is also a minister's wife.

"The course was designed to advance religious theories on the origins of life, including creationism and its offshoot, 'intelligent design,"' the lawsuit said. "Because the teacher has no scientific training, students are not provided with any critical analysis of this presentation."

Of course, I've long maintained that the Central Valley of California is simply Texas/Oklahoma "lite." The descendants of Tom Joad live on.

Update on the Starbucks Bomb in SF this week

San Francisco police arrested a man Tuesday who they believe planted a bomb in a Starbucks restroom that was powerful enough to dismember or kill someone had it gone off, police said.

When I got home last night @ 10:30pm, there were CCTV images of a man the police wanted to question. By midnight, while talking with the Enigma, I saw they'd already made an arrest. I was a bit surprised by that. One, that the police 'got their man' so swiftly and two, that someone at the Chronic was awake enough to actually cover the story in a timely manner.

Pertinent

I'm biting my tongue on all the Alito stuff for now. However, this came up today on my Google Homepage under "Quote of the day"

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith