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Evolving in Kansas, linking to the Albuquerque Journal [link requires subscription]:
McCain Displaying Early Dementia
THERE IS is little public discussion about John McCain’s mental state. Although his legendary temper was briefly considered last spring, that topic seems to have fallen off the radar screen.
More important, in my view, is the possibility that McCain is suffering from [...]

Maybe Tina Fey will be making some appearances on SNL this fall: she’s a dead ringer for Sarah Palin!  Put her hair up and give her more squareish glasses and BINGO!

New Orleans will never be the same, but is recovering:
The Brookings Institution and Greater New Orleans Data Center reported this month that the city has recovered 72 percent of its pre-Katrina households, nearly 90 percent of sales tax revenues, 86 percent of jobs and 76 percent of all previous public and private school students.
One of [...]

Presumptive Republican Nominee John McSame has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate:
Palin’s selection was a stunning surprise, as McCain passed over many other better-known prospects, some of whom had been the subject of intense speculation for weeks or months.
Obviously, McSame picked the governor for her vast experience: Palin served multiple terms as [...]

The Tennessee Titans “beat” the Green Bay Packers last night, 23-21.  However, the Titans’ “first team” failed to score a touchdown…
Hope they can do better than that next week, I mean, we’re only playing the Jacksonville Jaguars!

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana on this date in 2005.

The Tennessee Titans play the Green Bay Packers tonight at 6:00 pm CDT.  The game can been seen in Nashville on WKRN Channel 2.
One can only hope that the Titans will get it together tonight and make believers out of us fans–seeing Vince Young throw a touchdown pass (which would be a first for this [...]

The Tennessee Valley Authority has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to renew construction permits for two unfinished nuclear reactors, and has budgeted $10 million to study what would be involved in completing the construction.

Teen Challenge of Kentucky, a fundamentalist Christian group, that pushes religion under the guise of a drug and alcohol recovery program, have voluntarily returned a $50,000 federal grant upon the protest of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
The money was allocated through the Compassion Capital Fund, a special program created as part of [...]

Mark Perakh, writing in eSkeptic for August 20, 2008, Flagella Myths:
An interesting question arises: Why ID advocates and other creationists, who so eagerly and persistently display pictures like those in Figures 1, 2, and 3, never deign to show much more realistic representations of flagella structure such as those shown in Figures 4, 5, and [...]