flying spaghetti monster
As a devout Pastafarian, I couldn’t help but post about this — “Creature’s picture irks Board member” (Wichita Eagle):
State Board of Education member Connie Morris took exception Wednesday to a picture of a made-up creature that satirizes the state’s new science standards hanging on a Stucky Middle School teacher’s door.
Fellow board member Sue Gamble told The Eagle that Morris asked for the picture to be removed.
The creature, called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is the creation of Bobby Henderson of Corvallis, Ore. It looks like a clump of spaghetti with two eyes sticking out of the top and two meatballs flanking the eyes.
Henderson created the entity and an accompanying mythology on the origin of mankind to make fun of Kansas’ recent debate over the teaching of criticisms of evolution, including intelligent design.
In November, the board voted 6-4 to allow criticisms of evolution to be taught in Kansas schools.
The first thing I thought of was that episode of Family Guy where Peter takes on the FCC, and one of the “FCC agents” says to the other, “His chin looks like balls. You want me to censor that too?”
04.13.2006 @ 09:28
Dear Kansas Blogger…
I couldn’t have said it better myself. So I won’t.
I’ll just copy below what emaw said at
http://3oclockam.blogspot.com/2006/04/return-of-kgb.html
Please participate in the next KS Roundup.
Thanks, Lyn from Bloggin’ Outloud
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Return of the KGB
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from “them,” and
you can call me unpatriotic, but I think it’s time to
bring back the KGB.
This not-so-secret organization has been on hiatus
several weeks now. I’m refering of course to the
Kansas Guild of Bloggers.
For some inexplicable (or maybe just unexplained)
reason, Lyn has taken a break from organizing the
regular KGB Blog Carnival. So, that’s where the rest
of us (from Kansas) come in. Let’s keep the weekly
roundup of Kansas blog posts going. I’m volunteering
to host this week.
Here’s how it works: You submit a blog post to be
included in a digest of Kansas-related posts that I’ll
put up next Monday (April 17). You can submit the post
to the Blog Carnival at
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_170.html
So your first assignment as a KGB operative is to
submit a blog link to the carnival by 16:00 Kansas
Time (that’s 4 p.m.) on Sunday, April 15. That’s
Easter Sunday, so don’t wait until the last minute, ya
slackers!
Your second assignment is to forward a link to this
post to any bloggers that you know of in Kansas. Also
if you know of any expatriot KGB operatives (bloggers
from Kansas who currently live in a foreign country
like Italy, Spain, or Texas), make sure they know
about this effort as well. We’re depending on you to
make this thing work.
Your third assignment, should you choose to accept it,
is to join the KGB frappr map. You can see it all the
way down at the righ-hand column of this blog.
http://3oclockam.blogspot.com/2006/04/return-of-kgb.html
Keep going, all the way at the bottom. See it? Good.
Just click it and follow the instructions to add
yourself. This is optional, but it’s fun, so just do
it.
Okay, you have your orders. Just think of all the
traffic you’ll get by participating. Don’t make me
beg. Honestly, that’s something you really don’t want
to see.
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Thanks again,
lgp