What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
excuse me?
Amazingly, Mike Huckabee recently told an audience in Michigan that "what we need to do [is] to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view." Aside from the sheer evangelical audacity of this assertion, it amuses me to think of the political snarl such a proposal would create if we actually tried to do this. I realize that all presidential candidates make glamorous, unrealistic promises during the campaign, but what is this? Perhaps when candidates go this far we should take a few lessons from these Italian scientists.