@Lightwizard,
Quote: But religious displays belong on private property, not on public property. That church-state issue has been addressed by the courts.
Then how come the Bibles at the inaugurations? Our news said the second one, after the Big Chief Justice has bolloxed up the first, was a different one.
But I can see that it's easier protesting to the Sentinel than to the USSC.
The number of Sentinel readers who read Mr Blount's letter is probably fewer than the number of people who question the atomic theory of matter, the theory of gravity, the heliocentric theory of the solar system, the germ theory of disease, the theory of relativity and many other scientific theories. Whatever they are. And the number of those who remembered what he had been on about becomes even fewer in direct proportion to the square of the time (t) measured in seconds (s) from when they turned their attention to the next thing. Which could easily have been a paean of praise for the Fire Brigade for their prompt response to the chip-pan fire and their efficiency and expertise in dealing with it.
The fact that human beings can't be divided up and still be studied as human beings strongly suggests a number of either zero or one with two being a possibility albeit remote.
There is a danger Wiz in thinking that anything written down which provides additional justifications for one's highly charged emotional subjectivities is as interesting to others as it is to oneself. It's a form of word magic. Of a very low order in this case. It took me a while to get over it.
Now I start from "what boat is this **** rowing? And some boats I like. One in particular.
I don't know anything about Grand Junction except that I doubt it is very grand. Mr Blount might have discovered that there is no little coterie of activists pushing the local envelope of the "evolution in schools" balloon. And his letter, address supplied, might attract an intensely socially concerned person who has not yet found a niche in the socially concerned persons reef. Maybe two. (see above). Female for preference and a bit dazed by the silky voices on the science channels. One might write a nice Stendhalian passage about the formation of Mr Blount's action group to go up against the conservative fat cats thinking that science is the wind behind and how it eventually came to shake the foundations of the State. Mrs Whitehouse began with a letter to a paper and she shook the BBC, and the faster the veils came off the louder she shouted and, as usual in our country, the more absurd she became. One journalist was granted an interview and he reported that she had a crack in her toilet bowl. It cost her thousands of supporters.
All these well known spokespersons started out somewhere. And a host of failures. They scour the medical text books looking for conditions nobody has got a handle on yet.
Mr Blount really ought to have given his sentences a personal touch of his own. Copying the most banal over-generalisations straight out of the copious archives of this stuff is a bit tiresome for the readers. I imagined a Creature Comforts character reading it. Or W.C. Fields. It helped.