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In a May 6, 2005, post on his Uncommon Descent (UD) blog, intelligent design creationist William Dembski was talking tough. He offered a lesson for "Darwinists" drawn from the then-ongoing hearings held before the Kansas Board of Education on May 5-7 to discuss the Kansas science standards. The creationist-dominated board had hoped that pro-evolution scientists and ID creationists would debate revisions proposed by the creationist minority on the board's Science Curriculum Writing Committee. These revisions included re-defining science to allow the supernatural as a scientific explanation. Refusing to lend legitimacy to this "Kansas kangaroo court," scientists boycotted the hearings1. The only pro-evolution participant, representing pro-science groups, was attorney Pedro Irigonegaray, who cross-examined many of the twenty-three creationists who were brought in to testify at taxpayer expense2. These twenty-three are supporters of Dembski and his associates who have promoted ID for a decade from the Center for Science and Culture (CSC), the creationist arm of the Discovery Institute (DI), a conservative Seattle think tank.
Grousing that "only the evolution critics are being interrogated," Dembski was "waiting for the day when the hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas in which evolutionists are deposed at length." When "that happy day" came, Dembski predicted, the Darwinists "won't come off looking well."3 On May 11, Dembski portrayed "evolutionists" as too chicken to participate: "[E]volutionists escaped critical scrutiny by not having to undergo cross-examination . . . by boycotting the hearings." He proposed a "vise strategy" for "interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them," childishly illustrated with a photograph of a Darwin doll with its head compressed in a bench vise4. On May 16, he outlined his strategy: "interrogating Darwinists" about "five terms: science, nature, creation, design, and evolution."5 Under subpoena, they would be compelled to answer, hence the "vise" metaphor.
Dembski already knew that such a day of legal reckoning was approaching. Exactly one month later, on June 6, he sat across from me when I was deposed as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the first ID legal case, Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District. He attended my deposition as the adviser to the lead defense attorney, Richard Thompson of the Thomas More Law Center, and was scheduled to be deposed himself on June 13 as a defense witness. Besides being on opposite sides, there was another big difference between us: I showed up for my deposition. Dembski "escaped critical scrutiny by not having to undergo cross-examination" when he withdrew from the case on June 106.
Not only did I show up for my deposition, but I also testified at the trial despite being delayed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Moreover, I had the distinction of being the only witness whom the defense tried to exclude from the case. When they failed, the Discovery Institute tried to discredit me with ridicule.
A Brief History of the Kitzmiller Case
In October 2004, the Dover [PA] Area School District Board of Directors decided that "Students will be made aware of gaps/problems in Darwin's theory and of other theories of evolution including, but not limited to, intelligent design." In November they announced that Dover High School's ninth-grade biology teachers would read a statement informing students that "Darwin's Theory . . . is not a fact" and that "intelligent design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin's view." The statement referred students to the creationist textbook Of Pandas and People to learn "what intelligent design actually involves." On December 14, eleven parents filed suit in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, represented by attorneys from the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Pepper Hamilton, a Philadelphia law firm7. The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a Michigan Religious Right legal organization, represented the board. Judge John E. Jones III was assigned to hear the case.
Dover's problems actually started in 2002. Bertha Spahr, chair of Dover High School's science department, began to encounter animosity from Dover residents toward the teaching of evolution. In January 2002, board member Alan Bonsell began pressing for the teaching of creationism. In August, a mural depicting human evolution, painted by a 1998 graduating senior and donated to the science department, disappeared from a science classroom. The four-by-sixteen-foot painting had been propped on a chalkboard tray because custodians refused to mount it on the wall. Spahr learned that the building and grounds supervisor had ordered it burned. In June 2004, board member William Buckingham, Bonsell's co-instigator of the ID policy, told Spahr that he "gleefully watched it burn" because he disliked its portrayal of evolution. He also blocked purchase of a new science textbook that included evolution, forcing teachers to accept Pandas as a reference book in exchange for new textbooks8. In January 2005, science teachers refused to read the ID statement; administrators read it themselves9. The situation worsened. When the next school year began in September 2005, the board's policy and ID itself were on trial in Harrisburg, PA.
Trouble Behind the Scenes
Besides myself, the other expert witnesses for the plaintiffs were scientists Kevin Padian and Kenneth Miller, theologian John Haught, science education expert Brian Alters, and philosopher of science Robert Pennock10. Our combined work addressed all relevant aspects of ID creationism. The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) staff were consultants for the plaintiffs' team. Everyone on the plaintiffs' team, including the attorneys, served pro bono11. Our pre-trial preparations went smoothly, but things weren't going smoothly for the defense.
Dembski's CSC associates Stephen C. Meyer, John Angus Campbell, Scott Minnich and Michael Behe were also to be witnesses for the defense, along with ID supporters Warren Nord, Steve William Fuller, and Dick M. Carpenter II. When TMLC rejected Meyer, Dembski, and Campbell's demand for legal representation independent of TMLC, the three withdrew from the case by refusing to continue without their own attorneys12. In the case of Campbell, Pepper Hamilton attorney Thomas Schmidt had flown to Memphis with a legal assistant and had hired a court reporter to take Campbell's long-scheduled deposition. Everything was proceeding on schedule until only minutes before the deposition was to begin, when defense attorney Patrick Gillen announced that TMLC would "no longer retain" Campbell as a witness because Campbell had "retained counsel through Discovery Institute" and had "discussed matters [with DI] to which I am not privy." Gillen learned of "these developments" only the night before13. Behe and Minnich, already deposed, remained as witnesses along with Nord, Fuller, and Carpenter.
Why would three of the most important ID experts withdraw? They had already submitted expert witness reports and scheduled depositions. Moreover, DI had hoped for years to precipitate a test case and had even prepared legal arguments14. The problem, however, was that DI did not want this case because the Dover board, urged on by TMLC15, had explicitly crafted its policy to promote "intelligent design." Having come to view that term as a legal liability after encountering opposition in Ohio, Kansas, and elsewhere, DI tried unsuccessfully to persuade the board to either restate the ID policy in sanitized language or withdraw it16. They were scared to death of a case they had not initiated and could not control.
Dembski, Meyer, and Campbell's exodus is explained by their fear of cross-examination. The public shredding that Irigonegaray had given ID creationists in Kansas one month earlier was still fresh17. Moreover, Dembski, Meyer, and Campbell knew what the plaintiffs' expert witnesses would say in court because they had our reports. DI must have known that our case would be devastating to the defense —and thus to ID— if it was argued before a judge who respected the truth and the Constitution.
My Role in the Kitzmiller Trial
I was called as a witness because of my co-authorship with Paul R. Gross of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (Oxford University Press, 2004) and other publications about ID18. In CTH, we analyze a document entitled "The Wedge Strategy," CSC's tactical plan, showing how CSC creationists are executing every phase except producing scientific data to support ID19. We show that ID is creationism, thus a religious belief, using the best evidence available: the words of ID leaders such as Phillip E. Johnson, William Dembski, and their ID colleagues. We also show ID's continuity with earlier creationism (CTH, ch. 9)20. My job was to present this evidence to the judge.
It probably wasn't difficult for DI and TMLC to figure out that, armed with my work and that of the other witnesses for the plaintiffs, halfway decent attorneys would make legal mincemeat of them. And the plaintiffs' attorneys were more than decent —they were superb. Pepper Hamilton's Eric Rothschild, one of the lead attorneys, prepared me well21. Dembski had seen a preview of my testimony at my deposition. DI also knew I was inspecting documents related to Of Pandas and People that our attorneys had subpoenaed from the Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE), which holds the Pandas copyright. Consequently, although DI and TMLC were squabbling behind the scenes, they shared a common goal: to either forestall or discredit my testimony.
On September 6, 2005, the defense filed a motion in limine requesting my exclusion from the case. DI and TMLC had apparently overcome their differences long enough to collaborate on the accompanying brief because it contained clear evidence of DI's input. Although I was not called as a scientific expert, the defense argued that I should be excluded because I had no scientific expertise and because I am, in their words, "little more than a conspiracy theorist and a web-surfing, 'cyber-stalker' of the Discovery Institute . . . and its supporters and allies."22 Five years earlier, Dembski had accused two of his critics, Wesley Elsberry and Richard Wein, of being "Internet stalkers who seem to monitor my every move."23 DI had responded to Creationism's Trojan Horse by labeling me as a conspiracy theorist24. Judge Jones denied the motion on September 22.
Scheduled to testify the following week but delayed by Hurricane Rita, I used the extra time to prepare for my testimony and to stay current on ID activities by visiting DI's website. On September 29, I noticed that DI had posted a transcript of an interview I had done— except that I hadn't done it. The transcript was fake. Apparently meant (though not marked) as a parody, the organization whose self-described goal is "to support high quality scholarship . . . relevant to the question of evidence for intelligent design in nature" ridiculed me by, among other things, having fictitious radio host "Marvin Waldburger" refer to me as "Dr. Barking Forrest Ph.D."25 If DI thought this would unsettle me, they were ignoring the fact that I had just been through two killer hurricanes. I could only shake my head at their doing something so jaw-droppingly stupid. If they were hoping Judge Jones would see and be influenced by this silliness, it was just another sign of the disrespect for his intelligence and integrity that began before the trial and continues today (see below).
On the Witness Stand
When I was sworn in on October 5, the defense spent the entire morning presenting arguments as to why I should not be qualified as an expert witness26. Judge Jones again denied the motion, meaning that he —and the whole world— would hear what both DI and TMLC had hoped they could bar from the record: the truth about ID.
I had two tasks: to demonstrate to Judge Jones (1) that ID is creationism, thus a religious belief, and (2) that Of Pandas and People is a creationist textbook. As part of the evidence for my first task I included the words of two leading ID proponents, Phillip E. Johnson and William Dembski. Under direct examination by Eric Rothschild, I related Johnson's definition of ID as "theistic realism" or "mere creation," by which he means "that we affirm that God is objectively real as Creator, and that the reality of God is tangibly recorded in evidence accessible to science, particularly in biology."27 To that I added Dembski's definition: "Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory."28 If the judge had heard nothing except these two quotes, he would have had all the evidence he needed that ID's own leaders regard it as not only creationism but also as a sectarian Christian belief. But I had much more, such as CSC fellow Mark Hartwig's 1995 Moody Magazine article in which he referred to a 1992 ID conference at Southern Methodist University as a meeting of "creationists and evolutionists," calling Dembski and Stephen Meyer "evangelical scholars."29 During these early years, when they needed money and supporters, ID proponents openly advertised both their religiosity and their creationism.
However, none of the evidence for ID's religious, creationist identity was more important than "The Wedge Strategy," probably written in 1996 when the CSC was established but revised in 1998. Known informally as the "Wedge Document," it was leaked from a Seattle office and posted on the Internet in early 199930. DI did not acknowledge ownership of it until 2002, after I independently authenticated it and wrote about it in 200131. The technical team hired by Pepper Hamilton to create computer "demonstratives" projected the Wedge Document onto a screen in court, and I walked Judge Jones through it, explaining the most important parts. My first slide made its significance clear: "[C]ould I have the first slide, please? This is the first page of the Wedge Strategy, and this is the opening paragraph of it. Quote, 'The proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one of the bedrock principles on which western civilization was built.' This . . . states very well the foundational belief behind the intelligent design movement and the reason that they have rejected the theory of evolution."32 As I continued, the judge heard the strategy's explicitly Christian goals: "Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialistic worldview and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."33 The folks at DI probably never imagined that an "obscure philosopher in Louisiana," as they once called me, would be using their strategy document in a trial— or that it would be so effective in their legal undoing. (Actually, they probably did suspect its legal significance, which explains their taking three years to acknowledge it.)
To counter the defense's predictable denials that ID is creationism, I also explained, using an account by ID proponent and CSC fellow Paul Nelson, how Phillip Johnson had master-minded creationism's transformation into "intelligent design" after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed creationism in public schools in its 1987 Edwards v. Aguillard ruling. According to Nelson, creationists believed that Edwards meant the death of the "two-model approach to origins," in which creationists recognize only two alternatives, either evolution or creation, hoping to win by default after undermining evolution. But Nelson explained that "a revolution from an unexpected quarter . . . was about to occur."34 The revolutionary was Johnson, who decided that, for creationism to survive Edwards, creationists had to redefine science: "Definitions of science, [Johnson] argued, could be contrived to exclude any conclusion we dislike or to include any we favor." Not only was Johnson's deliberate but nominal transformation of creationism into ID important for demonstrating ID's true identity, but it also provided important support for my testimony about Pandas: to survive after Edwards, Pandas would require a similar transformation. (When the book was first published in 1989, Johnson was already allied with chemist Charles Thaxton, author of the creationist book The Mystery of Life's Origin and "academic editor" of Pandas.35) The subpoenaed FTE documents, which contained several earlier Pandas drafts, revealed that precisely such a transformation had been effected.
A Pandas co-author, CSC fellow Dean H. Kenyon, had been a creationist witness in the Edwards case and had submitted a sworn affidavit testifying that "creation-science is as scientific as evolution."36 I discovered a letter Kenyon wrote to FTE president Jon Buell showing that he was working on the 1986 draft of Pandas, then called Biology and Creation, while also assisting in the Edwards case!37 All pre-Edwards drafts of Pandas (there were at least five) were written using creationist terminology. The earliest drafts had overtly creationist titles. In 1987 the title was changed to Of Pandas and People, and there were two 1987 drafts. One was written in creationist language. In the other, creationist terminology had been replaced by "intelligent design" and other design-related terms, suggesting that the Edwards decision prompted this change. The clincher was a new footnote in the latter draft explicitly referencing Edwards, indicating that this draft was produced after the June 19, 1987, decision in an effort to evade the ruling.38 I also found a letter from Buell to a prospective publisher in which Buell made profit projections for Pandas contingent upon the Court's decision: "The enclosed projection showing revenues of over 6.5 million in five years are based upon modest expectations for the market, provided the U.S. Supreme Court does not uphold the Louisiana Balanced Treatment acts. If by chance it should uphold it, then you can throw out these projections. The nationwide market would be explosive."39
These excerpts reflect the general content of the evidence I produced during my day and a half of testimony. When Richard Thompson cross-examined me, he did what we anticipated: avoiding the substance of my testimony and my published work, he attacked my credibility. He apparently hoped the judge would consider my association with civil liberties and humanist organizations unsavory enough to discredit me: "[Thompson] When did you become a card-carrying member of the ACLU?"40
The Defense
The combined testimony of the plaintiffs' expert witnesses presented a formidable obstacle for the defense—as did the testimony of defense witnesses themselves. Nord and Carpenter were withdrawn without testifying, leaving only Behe, Fuller, and Minnich41. Behe and TMLC attorney Robert Muise escorted the judge through a long explanation of irreducible complexity using Behe's stock example, the bacterial flagellum. During Rothschild's cross-examination, however, Behe admitted that under his own definition of a scientific theory (which he has conveniently loosened in order to classify ID as science), astrology also qualifies42. Most unhelpfully, Fuller had affirmed in his deposition— under oath— that ID is creationism. Presented by ACLU attorney Vic Walczak with the relevant statements, he had no choice but to admit this: "[Walczak] And then your answer beginning on Line 24, It [ID] is a kind of creationism, it is a kind of creationism. I didn't read the same passage twice. It's actually twice on there. Did I read that accurately? [Fuller] Well, it looks like that is what the sentences say."43 Fuller also described his role in the trial as that of an advocate for "disadvantaged theories" needing an "affirmative action strategy."44 By the time Minnich, the last witness, was asked to offer still more testimony about bacterial flagella, he understood fully the position in which he found himself: "I kind of feel like Zsa Zsa's fifth husband, you know? . . . I know what to do but I just can't make it exciting. I'll try."45
The Verdict on ID
On December 20, 2005, Judge Jones delivered a powerful opinion —a marvel of clarity and forthrightness— giving no quarter to either the school board or ID. He was not fooled by ID proponents' denials that they are creationists: "ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents" (136)46. He was especially displeased that board members Buckingham and Bonsell had lied under oath during their depositions: "[T]he inescapable truth is that both Bonsell and Buckingham lied at their January 3, 2005 depositions about their knowledge of the source of the donation for Pandas. . . . This mendacity was a clear and deliberate attempt to hide the source of the donations . . . to further ensure that Dover students received a creationist alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution" (115). Presented with the truth about the board's policy and the ID creationism it promoted, Jones ruled accordingly: "A declaratory judgment is hereby issued in favor of Plaintiffs . . . such that Defendants' ID Policy violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and . . . the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (139).
Judging the Judge
Reflecting the ID movement's status as an integral part of the Religious Right, their mean-spirited attacks on Judge Jones have amplified right-wing screeching about federal judges, revealing their contempt for the judicial system they have long wished to exploit on their own behalf. As Kevin Padian and Nick Matzke wrote in a commentary for NCSE, "DI immediately tried to 'swift-boat' the judge."47 (ID sympathizers were similarly enraged: harsh e-mails sent to Jones's office led federal marshals to place him and his family under guard for a short period.48) Given the warmed-over creationism that was the only thing Dembski, Meyer, and Campbell could have offered in court, they would have needed either a political partisan or a fool on the bench. Antics such as the "Barking Forrest" interview suggest that DI regarded Judge Jones as the latter. One of Dembski's regular Uncommon Descent bloggers apparently regarded him as both.
Dembski declined to comment on his blog when the opinion was filed: "I have little to add to what I wrote in September, so I'll just leave it there."49 On September 30, he had calculated probabilities for various outcomes: (1) 20% that Jones would uphold the ID policy; (2) 70% that he would overturn it but leave the "scientific status of ID" unchallenged; and (3) less than 10% that he would both overturn the policy and rule ID unscientific. He hedged his bets by appealing for intelligent assistance: "I trust that Providence will bring about the outcome that will best foster ID's ultimate success."50 Blogger "DaveScot" urged optimism: "Have more faith, Bill! This is all about Judge Jones. If it were about the merits of the case we know we'd win. It's about politics. . . . Judge John E. Jones . . . is a good old boy brought up through the conservative ranks . . . appointed by GW hisself. . . . Unless Judge Jones wants to cut his career off at the knees he isn't going to rule against the wishes of his political allies."51 Post-verdict, however, Scot shifted from cocksure confidence in the "good old boy" to insults. When Time magazine named Judge Jones one of 100 "people who shape our world," he offered some unflattering comparisons: "The magazine who made these men 'Man of the Year'— 1938 – Adolf Hitler; 1939 – Joseph Stalin; 1942 – Joseph Stalin; 1957 – Nikita Krushchev; [and] 1979 – Ayatullah Khomeini— now brings you Judge John Jones as a 2006 Honorable (pun intended) Mention." Dembski responded appreciatively: "Thanks, Dave, for contextualizing this milestone in our proper appreciation of important personages. . . . What a crock."52
In a December 20, 2005, post on DI's Evolution News & Views blog, CSC associate director John West sniped, "Judge Jones . . . wants his place in history as the judge who issued a definitive decision about intelligent design. This is an activist judge who has delusions of grandeur."53 DI then hastily self-published a book, Traipsing into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Decision, charging that Jones "repeatedly misrepresented both the facts and the law in his opinion, sometimes egregiously."54 The nastiness of DI's attacks on the judge can be seen as directly proportionate to his opinion's power and accuracy.
The Aftermath
Probably anticipating a future legal case, for which Jones's opinion would serve as a strong precedent and for which I might be called as an expert witness, ID creationists continue their efforts to discredit both Judge Jones and me. They employ their usual m.o.: lacking scientific evidence for ID, they make things up and/or slander their opposition. DI's attacks on Judge Jones stem partly from his reliance on my testimony and pre-trial reports, as he indicated in his opinion: "Dr. Barbara Forrest . . . has thoroughly and exhaustively chronicled the history of ID in her book and other writings for her testimony in this case. Her testimony, and the exhibits . . . admitted with it, provide a wealth of statements by ID leaders that reveal ID's religious, philosophical, and cultural content."55 Consequently, CSC fellow Jonathan Witt has interwoven attacks on the judge with attacks on me: "Several newspapers . . . are highlighting Judge John Jones' spurious determination that intelligent design is creationism in disguise. They're accurately reporting the judge's opinion here, for his decision reads like a condensation of atheist-activist Barbara Forrest's mythological history of intelligent design. . . . He followed the thinking of . . . Barbara Forrest to a t. . . . In following Barbara Forrest's fallacious reasoning and mythological history of intelligent design, Judge Jones has erred badly."56
On April 12, 2006, presenting long-discredited pro-ID arguments at the University of Montana School of Law, CSC fellow and law professor David DeWolf complained that Jones "thought it was his job to declare what was orthodox in science [and] . . . to decide theological questions."57 Asserting that Jones's opinion "effectively targeted" DI as "the author of this Wedge Document," DeWolf lobbed a double ad hominem: "Judge Jones's reliance on the Barbara Forrest testimony in the trial makes the John Birch Society look rational." He also told the audience —falsely —that "there is a letter from Barbara Forrest, one of the witnesses in the Dover trial, a letter to an editor of a journal saying basically don't publish things from people who are advocates of intelligent design."58 At a May 5, 2006, luncheon we both attended at the Massachusetts School of Law, I asked him publicly whether he had seen this letter. He admitted —before an audience of his legal peers —that he had not.59 This time he was telling the truth: I never wrote such a letter. However, DeWolf continues to promote ID using the same debunked arguments that he and his ID associates used before the trial. In an article with former DI attorney Seth Cooper, he complains that Jones's ruling was "based upon evidence and characterizations of intelligent design that have been sharply contested by leading proponents of intelligent design."60 Yet, like Dembski, Meyer, and Campbell, neither DeWolf nor Cooper was anywhere in sight when they had a chance to defend ID in court.
The legal defeat of ID is forcing Wedge strategists to seek new markets for their creationism and to work their conservative Christian market more thoroughly. They are peddling ID abroad: DI has added international signatories to "A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism."61 Even during the trial, they held an ID conference in Prague.62 Domestically, Dembski has been reduced to riding the coattails of conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who devoted four chapters of her latest book, Godless, to attacking evolution. These chapters contain the standard creationist canards, but with Coulter's recognizable stylistic stamp: "Imagine a giant raccoon passed gas and perhaps the resulting gas might have created the vast variety of life we see on Earth. And if you don't accept the giant raccoon flatulence theory for the origin of life, you must be a fundamentalist Christian nut who believes the Earth is flat. That's basically how the argument for evolution goes."63 Coulter credits her ability to write these chapters to "the generous tutoring of Michael Behe, David Berlinski, and William Dembski, all of whom are fabulous at translating complex ideas."64 Dembski acknowledges his assistance: "I'm happy to report that I was in constant correspondence with Ann regarding her chapters on Darwinism —indeed, I take all responsibility for any errors in those chapters."65 He has dubbed Coulter "the Wedge for the masses."66
These tactics by DeWolf and Dembski highlight the bankruptcy of ID and the blustering cowardice of its leaders, who must capture support with brazen deceit and sarcastic punditry. The trial was Dembski's moment to shine, to explain on the legal record why ID is a "full scale scientific revolution," as he wrote in The Design Revolution (InterVarsity Press, 2004, p. 19). Instead, plaintiffs' witness Robert Pennock read to Judge Jones Dembski's statement regarding ID's revolutionary status— and then dismantled it67. Ironically, Dembski had his arch-critics right where he wanted us —on the witness stand and under oath. He could have been there, implementing his strategy, helping to "squeeze the truth" out of us, "as it were." In November 2005, after the trial ended, Dembski posted on his "Design Inference" website a pdf made from his May 11 and 16, 2005, "vise strategy" blog pages, labeled as a "Document prepared to assist the Thomas More Law Center in interrogating the ACLU's expert witnesses in the Dover case." He appended a list of "Suggested Questions," which, he wrote, "will constitute a steel trap that leave the Darwinists no room to escape."68 But when he had an opportunity to witness firsthand how his trap would operate, he was nowhere to be found. He "escaped critical scrutiny" by quitting rather than face cross-examination. He is apparently $20,000 richer for it, however, marking yet another difference between us: whereas I served pro bono, Dembski charged $200 per hour and threatened to sue TMLC for payment for 100 hours of work he claims to have done prior to quitting. In late June 2005, he told Canadian ID supporter Denyse O'Leary that TMLC had agreed to pay him.69
After ID's dramatic, unequivocal defeat in Kitzmiller, Dembski's priorities remained remarkably consistent: "This galvanizes the Christian community. . . . People I'm talking to say we're going to be raising a whole lot more funds now."70 If failure is that lucrative, one can only imagine how well-remunerated he and his ID colleagues would be if they could tell the truth and back up their claims about "intelligent design theory."
I would like to thank Glenn Branch and Nick Matzke of the National Center for Science Education for their comments and suggestions.
- Nick Matzke, "Biologists Snub 'Kangaroo Court' for Darwin," National Center for Science Education, March 30, 2005, here. See also "External Links" at the end of this article.
- National Center for Science Education, "All Over but the Shouting in Kansas," May 13, 2005, here.
- William Dembski, "Kansas Hearings: Scopes in Reverse? — Yes and No," Uncommon Descent, May 6, 2005, here.
- William Dembski, "The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth Out of Darwinists," Uncommon Descent, May 11, 2005, here.
- William Dembski, "The Vise Strategy II: Essence of the Strategy," Uncommon Descent, May 16, 2005, here.
- Wesley Elsberry, personal communication, May 23, 2006. Elsberry was to be the adviser to the attorney who would depose Dembski.
- Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Complaint (December 14, 2004), here. (pdf)
- Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Plaintiffs' Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, November 23, 2005, here.
- Plaintiffs' Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law here.
- See the roster of witnesses for both sides here.
- None of the defense's expert witnesses participated pro bono. All listed their fees— typically $100/hour, $200/hour in Dembski's case— in their expert witness reports.
- According to Richard Thompson, TMLC had agreed to allow Stephen Meyer, as "an officer of the Discovery Institute," to have his attorney present but would not allow Dembski and Campbell "to have attorneys, that they were going to consult with . . . and not with us." See National Center for Science Education, "Discovery Institute and Thomas More Law Center Squabble in AEI Forum," Oct. 23, 2005, here. DI corroborates Thompson's statement about the offer to Meyer but says that Meyer "declined the offer because the previous actions of Thomas More had undermined his confidence in their legal judgment." See "Setting the Record Straight About Discovery Institute's Role in the Dover School District Case,' Discovery Institute News, Nov. 10, 2005, here. See Dembski's slant on the situation, "York Daily Record Reports on Dover," Uncommon Descent, June 19, 2005, here.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Statement of Withdrawal of John Angus Campbell, Ph.D. (June 2, 2005), 5-6.
- DI's legal strategy is detailed in David K. DeWolf, Stephen C. Meyer, and Mark E. DeForrest, "Teaching the Origins Controversy: Science, Or Religion, Or Speech?" Utah Law Review (July 2000) here. (pdf) But see also Matthew Brauer, Barbara Forrest, and Steven Gey, "Is It Science Yet? Intelligent Design Creationism and the Constitution," Washington University Law Quarterly, Spring 2005, here. (pdf)
- Laurie Goodstein, "In Intelligent Design Case, a Cause in Search of a Lawsuit," New York Times, Nov. 4, 2005, here.
- "Discovery Institute Calls Dover Evolution Policy Misguided, Calls for Its Withdrawal," Discovery Institute News, Dec. 14, 2004, here. DI now strategically sanitizes its terminology, using euphemisms and code words in appeals for the teaching of ID. See Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, "Intelligent Design Has Distinctly Evolutionary Nature," Science & Theology News, Dec. 1, 2004, here. See a more detailed version, "The Evolution of 'Intelligent Design,'" here. (pdf)
- Pat Hayes gives an example in "The Kansas Science Hearings Metastory," May 9, 2005, here: "The knockout punch came when . . . Pedro Irigonegaray compelled the intelligent design witnesses to confess, during a series of withering cross-examinations, that they hadn't bothered to read the science standards draft . . . before coming to Kansas at taxpayer expense."
- For information about the book and our other ID publications, see here. See also ch. 10 of the paperback of CTH (forthcoming early 2007) for more about the trial and DI's associated shenanigans.
- See "The Wedge Strategy," here.
- For a chart showing continuities between ID and earlier creationism, see Barbara Forrest, "From 'Creation Science' to 'Intelligent Design': Tracing ID's Creationist Ancestry," 2005, here. (pdf) This chart was the source of some of my Kitzmiller "demonstratives." See these demonstratives, my expert witness report, and other documents, including my testimony transcripts, here.
- In addition to Rothschild, the primary attorneys were Stephen Harvey, Thomas Schmidt, and Alfred Wilcox of Pepper Hamilton; Witold "Vic" Walczak of the Pennsylvania ACLU; and Richard Katskee of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Other attorneys who were not in court helped in pre-trial preparations.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Defendants' Brief in Support of Motion in Limine to Exclude the Testimony of Barbara Forrest, Ph.D.," (September 6, 2005), 1, here. (pdf) The motion is here. (pdf)
- William A. Dembski, "Intelligent Design Coming Clean," November 17, 2000, here.
- See Discovery Institute, "The 'Wedge Document': 'So What?'" here. The DI website falsely claims that this document was "originally published in 2003" (see here). But it was written in response to my book, which was published in January 2004. The document's properties show that CSC associate director John West created it on January 8, 2004. The Internet Archive shows no such document on the DI website at the end of 2003 (see here). It does show a page with a link entitled "What Is the Wedge Document?" dated February 10, 2004, here, indicating that the document was on the website at that time.
- DI later added a note that the piece is a parody. See "Dover Trial Preview to Witness Testimony," Discovery Institute News, Sept. 29, 2005, here.
- See these arguments in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), AM Session, Part 1, here.
- See Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), AM Session, Part 2, here. The quote is from Phillip E. Johnson, "Starting a Conversation About Evolution," Access Research Network, Aug. 31, 1996, here.
- See Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), PM Session, Part 1, here. The quote is from William A. Dembski, "Signs of Intelligence: A Primer on Intelligent Design," Touchstone (July/August 1999), 84.
- See Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), AM Session, Part 2, here. The Moody Magazine article, "Challenging Darwin's Myths," is here.
- The document was posted by Tim Rhodes after being leaked by Matt Duss, both of Seattle. See Roger Downey, "Discovery's Creation," Seattle Weekly, Feb. 1, 2006, here.
- I first wrote about the document's authenticity in "The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream," in Robert Pennock, Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics, MIT Press, 2001. See Creationism's Trojan Horse, ch. 2, for a more detailed discussion. For Stephen Meyer's admission of DI's ownership of the document, see Chris Mooney, "Survival of the Slickest," American Prospect, Dec. 2, 2002, here.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), PM Session, Part 1, here.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), PM Session, Part 1, here.
- See Paul Nelson, "Life in the Big Tent: Traditional Creationism and the Intelligent Design Community," Christian Research Journal 24:4 (2002), here. For this part of my testimony, see Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), PM Session, Part 1, here.
- Thomas Woodward, Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design, Baker Books, 2003, 89.
- See "Edwards v. Aguillard: Affidavit of Creationist Dean Kenyon," here.
- Dean Kenyon to Jon Buell, February 19, 1986. Submitted into evidence for plaintiffs as Exhibit P-559.
- See my "Supplemental Report" on Pandas here. See also the demonstratives I used to show these changes graphically to the judge here and here. (pdf)
- See Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), AM Session, Part 2, here.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 6 (October 5), PM Session, Part 2, here.
- Despite the fact that Carpenter played no real role in the trial, he wrote an article for the February 2006 American School Board Journal entitled "Deconstructing Dover: An Expert Witness for the District Shares Lessons from 'Scopes 2005'," here. (pdf) In this article, he implements DI's deceptive strategy of trying to disconnect teaching ID from "teaching the controversy about evolutionary theory" (code talk for teaching ID) and offers "lessons" for school boards: "For school board members interested in 'teaching the controversy' about evolutionary theory, the lessons here are clear: Conduct the public's business in and with the public. Make sure your policies are justified with a clear and secular purpose. Neither officially advocate nor prohibit intelligent design. Seek out and pay attention to expert advice" (21-22). School boards would be well advised to ignore Carpenter's article and steer clear of teaching this non-existent controversy in any form. As an "Education Correspondent" for Focus on the Family, Carpenter also wrote what appear to be variants of the ASBJ article for FOF's Citizen magazine. See Dick Carpenter, "Media Hype Distorted Evolution Case," Focus on Education, Citizen, Feb. 2006, here. See also Dick Carpenter, "Dover Lesson: Get Smart About ID," Citizen, March 2006, here.
- See Behe's testimony in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 10 (October 17), AM Session, Part 1, here.
- See Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 15 (October 24), PM Session, Part 2, here.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 15 (October 24), AM Session, Part 2, here.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 20 (November 3), PM Session, Part 1, here.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Memorandum Opinion (Dec. 20. 2005), here. (pdf)
- Kevin Padian and Nick Matzke, "Discovery Institute Tries to 'Swift-boat' Judge Jones," National Center for Science Education, Jan. 4, 2006, here.
- Lauri Lebo, "Judge in Dover Case Reports Hostile E-mails," York Daily Record, Mar. 24, 2006, here.
- William A. Dembski, "The Significance of the Dover Decision," Uncommon Descent, Dec. 20, 2005, here.
- William A. Dembski, "Life After Dover," Uncommon Descent, Sept. 30, 2005, here.
- DaveScot, comment on "Life After Dover," Uncommon Descent, Sept. 30, 2005, here.
- DaveScot, "Time Magazine and Judge John Jones," Uncommon Descent, May 4, 2006, here. William Dembski, comment on "Time Magazine and Judge John Jones," May 4, 2006, here. Time's Person of the Year designation is not an honorific title, but an assessment of the designee's influence on current events.
- Discovery Institute, "Dover Intelligent Design Decision Criticized as a Futile Attempt to Censor Science Education," Evolution News & Views, Dec. 20, 2005, here. See all relevant DI blog postings here.
- David DeWolf, John West, Casey Luskin, and Jonathan Witt, Traipsing into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Decision (Discovery Institute Press, 2006), 9.
- Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, Memorandum Opinion (Dec. 20. 2005), 26.
- Center for Science and Culture, "Dover Judge Regurgitates Mythological History of Intelligent Design," Evolution News & Views, posted by Jonathan Witt, Dec. 20, 2005, here.
- David DeWolf, "Darwinian Orthodoxy: Was Justice Jackson Wrong?" University of Montana School of Law, April 12, 2006, here.
- DeWolf, "Darwinian Orthodoxy: Was Justice Jackson Wrong?"
- The luncheon was prior to a taping for MSL's TV program, Educational Forum, and was attended by law school faculty and administrators.
- See David K. DeWolf and Seth L. Cooper, "Teaching About Evolution in the Public Schools: A Short Summary of the Law," Discovery Institute News, June 20, 2006, here. DeWolf is also the primary speaker in a pro-ID video, "How to Teach the Controversy Legally," in which ID is never mentioned by name. Available here, this video is an example of the strategy Dick Carpenter II recommends in his advice to school boards (see ASBJ article at note 41).
- See "Dissent From Darwinism 'Goes Global' as Over 600 Scientists Around the World Express Their Doubts About Darwinian Evolution," Discovery Institute News, June 21, 2006, here.
- See the conference website, "Darwin and Design: A Challenge for 21st Century Science," here. Michael Behe was unable to attend because of the trial.
- Ann Coulter, Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown Forum 2006), 214. For a detailed analysis of these chapters, see "Ann Coulter's Flatulent Raccoon Theory," Mediamatters.org, July 7, 2006, here.
- Coulter, acknowledgments, Godless, 303.
- William Dembski, "Ann Coulter Weighs in on Darwinism," Uncommon Descent, April 26, 2006, here.
- William Dembski, "Ann Coulter: The Wedge for the Masses," Uncommon Descent, June 12, 2006, here.
- Testimony of Robert T. Pennock, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 3 (September 28, 2005), AM Session, Part 1, here.
- See William Dembski, "The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth Out of Darwinists," Design Inference, (posted Nov. 8, 2005), 4, here. (pdf) It is worth noting that after his last question, Dembski conveniently noted that "with these questions, we don't need to get into the positive ID program — i.e., what ID is doing specifically to advance ou[r] understanding of biology. That will come out under cross-examination of our side" (13).
- See Dembski's statement of his fee in his expert witness report, "Disclosure of Expert Testimony of William A. Dembski," p. 12, here. (pdf) See also Denyse O'Leary, "Key ID Theorist Threatens to Sue Intelligent Design Supporters in Dover, Pennsylvania Case," June 25, 2005, here.
- Rachel Zoll, "Case Seen as Setback to Intelligent Design," Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 21, 2005, here. See Robert Pennock's commentary on the trial, "Swords and Smoking Guns," Science & Theology News, March 6, 2006, here.


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Sunday, 2 January 2011
Fernando Pessoa: Inscriptions (from English Poems)
7 comments:
- Issa's Untidy Hut said...
Gorgeous, Pessoa. Thank you, Tom.
- 2 January 2011 at 13:32
- tpw said...
Great poem. Thanks.
- 2 January 2011 at 15:48
- manik sharma said...
i bow to this..thank you
- 3 January 2011 at 00:51
- TC said...
Thanks Don, Terry, Manik.
Pessoa's early (and very good) English poems are consistent with his later work in their invention of a fictive voice and persona. Here the speaker echoes the epigrams of the Greek anthology, adopting a cool, distanced "classical voice", in composing what would seem to be ancient Roman or Greek tomb inscriptions.
(As is perhaps obvious, the fictional archaic context prompted the selection of images from Eric Fischl's Rome series.)
I had intended to post the complete Inscriptions, with titles and covers and end pages, in facsimile, but the high-res jpg files of these were simply too simply too big for our weak little old computer (which, too, dates from the days of the ancients).
At any rate, this selection of seven of the Inscriptions represents my own editorial judgment. Other editors doubtless would have made different choices.
Here are the ones I've left out, which, as I've gone to the trouble to type them out, may prove of interest to somebody.
Me, Chloe, a maid, the mighty fates have given,
Who was nought to them, to the peopled shades.
Thus the gods will. My years were but twice seven.
I am forgotten in my distant glades.
From my villa on the hill I long looked down
Upon the muttering town;
Then one day drew (life sight-sick, dull hope shed)
My toga o'er my head
(The simplest gesture being the greatest thing)
Like a raised wing.
Not Cecrops kept my bees. My olives bore
Oil like the sun. My several herd lowed far.
The breathing traveller rested by my door.
The wet earth smells still; dead my nostrils are.
Scarce five years passed ere I passed too.
Death came and took the child he found.
No god spared, or fate smiled at, so
Small hands, clutching so little round.
There is a silence where the town was old.
Grass grows where not a memory lies below.
We that dined loud are sand. The tale is told.
The far hoofs hush. The inn's last light doth go.
We, that both lie here, loved. This denies us.
My lost hand crumbles where her breasts' lack is.
Love's known, each lover is anonymous.
We both felt fair. Kiss, for that was our kiss.
I for my city's want fought far and fell.
I could not tell
What she did want, that knew she wanted me.
Her walls be free,
Her speech keep such as I spoke, and men die,
That she die not, as I.
- 3 January 2011 at 05:31
- Bowie Hagan said...
Very much enjoy Pessoa, here in his Inscriptions; Such a light and weaving song, haunting as the painting's mirror. thanks.
- 26 January 2011 at 09:17
- TC said...
Glad you like these, Bowie. They are delicate and speak by implication; one hears echoes of the Greek Anthology, as if one of the ancients had returned to leave us these belated epigrams.
- 29 January 2011 at 07:21
- Olivier Malhomme said...
I tried to put this poem into music. Since I'm french there are bound to be pronunciation issues...
Hope you enjoy it
- 30 September 2013 at 05:35

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The prospects of Northern Ireland losing a second World Cup qualifier to the weather receded on Monday afternoon, with Israel given the green light to train at Windsor Park.
Russia left Belfast without fulfilling their Group F clash after the original Friday night kick-off and a revised start time of 3pm on Saturday were called off due to heavy snow and pitch ice.
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Germs With Your Coffee?
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And the ANI story went on to say 20 percent of office coffee cups contain (hang on here) fecal bacteria. Not to mention all the other cooties you can pick up.
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Summers Juice & Coffee, Brooklyn
While Shawn was in NY earlier this week, he came home taunting me (and my juice addiction) with pictures of Summers Juice & Coffee that was just opened by one of his closest friends, Alex Kleinberg. So, here's a peek at the fun design details and deliciousness. Congrats, Alex!!!
On happy places, you can't help but smile when you arrive at the freshly opened Summers Juice & Coffee in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We've enjoyed following their Instagram all summer as Alex Kleinberg and Christopher Taha (and their friend, Steffan Elzinga, of Wood Mgmt.) got their hands dirty and converted the 50 year old bodega space into their adorably refreshing neighborhood juice/coffee/pastry/sandwich spot. They found surprises like exposed brick and a large window under the drywall, which combined with some reclaimed wooden fence planks (which turn into herringbone ceiling and counter facade) and the addition of concrete flooring and counters, projection surf flicks, a stunning red surfboard on the wall, and a fun surf mural on the roll gate… it's easy to forget there was a bodega there!
As for the food and drinks, Summers isn't just fun decor, Shawn swears by the egg sandwich. (Here's a peek at the making-of THE Egg Sandwich!) Part of the secret is definitely the parker roll from Clinton St. Baking Co. and the spiral of sriracha… also the bacon + avocado… oh, and the cheese folded in the fried egg. But i digress, with Alex's history at his family's award winning Clinton St. Baking Co., it's no surprise the food and juice is delicious. (For Clinton St. fans, they also carry their pastries!) And as for coffee, they brew Brooklyn Roasting Company goodness. But, back to the visuals - take a peek inside Summers Juice & Coffee on the next page!


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Gluten Free Biscuit Recipe: Lowfat Baking with Pamela's Pancake Mix
One of my favorite hearty gluten-free indulgences is a yummy biscuit, preferably topped with some killer (vegan) gravy. I've tried many recipes over the years, and I keep going back to Bette Hagman's biscuits made with her gluten-free bisquik type recipe. But recently, with a surplus of Pamela's Baking mix to use up ASAP, I've been experimenting with some of the recipes on the Pamela's Product web page. I made the biscuit recipe on their page to rave reviews for DH, but even though I thoroughly enjoyed every buttery bite, I couldn't help but feel that they were a bit too rich for me to enjoy as a regular dish. And wouldn't it be nice to have biscuits regularly with my other southern dishes, like southern fried tofu or slow cooked greens? (Yes! Absolutely!) So I decided to turn things around a bit and instead of using ultra-rich (although trans-fat free) Organic Spectrum shortening for the base of my biscuits, I tried using lowfat cottage cheese, inspired by Naomi's recent revolutionary croissant recipe- *the original used cottage cheese*. It worked beautifully, and cut the fat AND calories so much I could easily see making these biscuits on a weekly, not a yearly basis. DH gave them a thumbs up of approval, and I was really happy to enjoy them not only for dinner, with gravy, roasted asparagus, and vegetarian refried beans, but for breakfast too. Here's a biscuit this southern-girl wannabe can really sink her teeth into! The best part is how very FAST this recipe comes together. Dump your ingredients in a bowl, plop them on a pan, stick it in the oven and whalah, almost instant biscuits that are easier to clean up after than muffins. Now that's what I like to hear. So if you too have a Pamela's baking mix haunting your cupboard and you've just had one too many pancake or waffle recipes this week, why not go Southern with it and whip up a quick batch of biscuits? I promise you won't be disappointed!
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Pamela's Gluten-Free Diner Drop Biscuit Recipe
2 cups Pamela's Baking & Pancake Mix
1/2 cup lowfat (or fat free) cottage cheese minus 1 or 2 tbsp.
1 or 2 tbsp organic trans-fat free shortening
2/3 cup milk (add an extra tablespoon or two if you prefer a wetter batter) OR buttermilk [Thank you Ginger!!!]
You will get 8 extra large drop biscuits.
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Combine ingredients, mixing thoroughly but not mixing excessively.
Drop extra-large spoonfuls of dough onto a light colored baking sheet and bake for 17-22 minutes, rotating pan halfway through. Bake until biscuits are slightly browned on top and bottom of biscuit is medium brown. Remove biscuits from pan with a sharp, metal spatula and enjoy!
Nutritional Yeast Gravy
1/4 cup brown rice flour
1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
1 1/2 cup water
2 tbsp Braggs GF liquid aminos
2 tsp olive oil
1/4 tsp onion granules
1/4 tsp garlic granules (if desired)
1/8 tsp black pepper
Heat brown rice flour and nutritional yeast flakes in a dry nonstick frypan on a medium temperature, and let them lightly brown and release their fragrance. Take the pan off the heat and slowly add water, braggs, olive oil and seasonings, whisking continuously until mixture is silky smooth. Return to heat and stir until gravy reaches desired consistency.
I serve this gravy every holiday with mashed potatoes and (on thanksgiving) my portabello stuffed acorn squash dish. It's so easy you can make it anytime, and top brown rice, pasta, baked potatoes or tofu patties. DH enjoys it too, and it's considerably easier than the typical American gravy made from scratch.
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My brother Bill runs a still on the hill
Where he turns out a gallon or two
And the buzzards in the sky get so drunk they can not fly
Just from sniffing that good old mountain dew.
In popular conception, moonshine is a hillbilly thing. Imagine a bearded, overall-clad, avuncular fellow manning his still. Meanwhile, his good-ol'-boy nephews are straightenin' the curves, staying one step ahead of the county sheriff while delivering the goods. If that's your view of 'shine, well, you're not alone.
In his book, Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine, author Max Watman explores this view of 'shine and finds that it's far from the whole picture. In researching his book, released February 2010 in hardback and earlier this year in paperback, Watman shadowed prosecutors and federal agents, talked to the legendary Junior Johnson, and drove through the hills and forests of Virginia and the Carolinas on the trail of hooch.
As Watman recounts in this entertaining and well-researched book, however, there's far more to illegal distillation than just podunk corn likker. Watman recounts his own efforts to get an illegal still going, and the sometimes-comical, sometimes-delicious results. He tracks down microdistillers–places like Colorado's Stranahan's–that specialize in small-batch, craft distilling.
Many of the folks involved in the craft distilling scene started out making artisan spirits at home, prior to going pro, and Watman speaks to a few of these people as well–men and women making whiskeys, eaux de vie, and applejack for their own use or to share with friends.
Now Preacher John walked by, with a tear in his eye
Said that his wife had the flu
And hadn't I ought just to give him a quart
Of that good old mountain dew
But Watman also examines an area of illegal distillation that few people are paying attention to–one that's become a serious problem in urban areas. Y'see, Uncle Jesse's been branching out. Ol' Jess learned a few years ago that there's not much money in making a few gallons for his neighbors in Hazzard County. So Jesse's gone big.
He invested in an industrial-quality still and started buying pallets of pure sugar. If he's very careful, he can hide behind the old cornpone stereotypes, while making vast quantities of something called sugar jack. This stuff ain't no mellow sipper, meant for you to enjoy while barbecuing.
No, sugar jack is rotgut; it's harsh and acrid. Jesse can pump it out fast, cheap, and in massive amounts, and it's not meant for rural consumption. Most of it is sold for a dollar a shot at so-called nip joints, or shot houses, which are unregulated, unlicensed establishments. Aimed mostly at the urban poor, nip joints foster other criminal activities in addition to illegal hooch: gambling, narcotics, and prostitution, namely.
The sugar jack itself is nasty work; Watman describes his only taste of it in terms that are both funny and frightening. You can easily believe the liquid itself poses significant health risks. In conjunction with the nip joints in which it's sold, though, it has become a deadly serious public-health problem, especially in cities such as Baltimore and Philadelphia.
There's an old hollow tree, just a little way from me
Where you lay down a dollar or two
If you hush up your mug, then they'll give you a jug
Of that good old mountain dew.
But it's not all sinister. As I mentioned earlier, Watman talks to hobbyists, and briefly becomes one himself, who make artisan brandies and white-dog whiskeys with very small stills. And he asks himself, why is this illegal?
And make no mistakes here: unlicensed small-batch distilling is entirely and completely illegal in the United States. You can lose your home and all of your assets if you're caught, and then you'll get to go to jail. Now, the likelihood of such dire consequences isn't high; after all, law enforcement has far bigger problems with sugar jack production and nip joints. But you need to be aware of them anyway.
I've blogged on this topic before, first when I reviewed Matt Rowley's book Moonshine and again in a three-part interview about small-batch home distilling, with Rowley, Mike McCaw, and Ian Smiley [part 1, part 2, part 3]. I think the conclusion of most rational human beings (it's certainly Watman's conclusion) is that, yes, large-scale unlicensed distillation can and should remain a felony, punishable by serious jail time and property seizure.
But the law really does need to make some provision for small-batch distilling. Set limits on how much you can make, sure, just as there are currently limits on how much beer and wine a person can make at home. Retain a prohibition on selling home distillates. But for god's sake, allow a person to bring home a few bushels of apples from the farmer's market every October and make some bloody applejack! Where's the harm in that, really?
My uncle Mort, he is sawed off and short,
He measure 'bout four foot two,
But he thinks he's a giant when you give him a pint
Of that good old mountain dew.
They call it that good old mountan dew,
And them that refuse it are few.
I'll hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
With that good old mountain dew.
[Chasing the White Dog was provided to me by the publisher for review purposes.]


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Mercer University is one of America's oldest and most distinctive institutions of higher learning, offering rigorous programs that span the undergraduate liberal arts to doctoral-level degrees. Founded by early 19th century Baptists, Mercer — while no longer formally denominationally affiliated — remains committed to an educational environment that embraces the historic Baptist principles of intellectual and religious freedom.
With more than 8,600 students enrolled in 12 schools and colleges on campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah; three medical school sites in Macon, Savannah and Columbus; and at three Regional Academic Centers around the state, Mercer is ranked among the top tier of national research universities by U.S. News & World Report. Our more than 80,000 alumni are making important contributions to their professions and communities throughout Georgia, the Southeast and the world.
While offering a breadth of programs found at much larger universities, Mercer maintains an intimate, student-focused culture more characteristic of smaller liberal arts colleges. Mercer's uniqueness is found in the way the University integrates five defining components of its mission:
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The foundation of a Mercer education since 1833 has been liberal learning. By studying the best that has been created and discovered in the sciences, the arts, and the humanities, liberally educated women and men learn to think for themselves and to seek excellence. Liberal learning at Mercer engages undergraduate students in research and scholarship, emphasizes leadership and service locally and internationally, offers students cutting-edge interdisciplinary programs of study, and provides intensive preparation for the professions. Liberal learning at Mercer is hands-on education for future leadership in the professions, in business, in public service, and in our communities.
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Great universities generate new discoveries that add to the world's body of knowledge. Mercer's rapidly expanding investments in this arena range from groundbreaking work in new drug delivery protocols to cutting-edge translational cancer research. A Mercer distinctive is the interdisciplinary nature of research that promotes collaboration across schools and colleges. Faculty and students from the School of Engineering work with faculty and students from the School of Medicine to develop new biomedical devices. Undergraduate biology students work alongside faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Pharmacy to devise new cancer treatments. This kind of integrative research is critical to solving the world's most pressing challenges. Because of Mercer's array of academic programs and an institutional culture that promotes collaboration, the University is well positioned to generate important new discoveries that make a difference in people's lives.
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A Mercer hallmark since its founding has been service to others, which is rooted in our faith-based mission. The University was a pioneer in service-learning, integrating volunteerism and curricula long before the term came into vogue and was embraced by many other institutions. Mercer was one of the first institutions in the country to participate in the AmeriCorps program in the 1990s and the Upward Bound program in the 1960s.
Service to humankind is ingrained in the Mercer culture. It is found in its academic units – a medical school dedicated entirely to preparing primary care physicians for rural and other medically underserved areas of Georgia and a law school widely recognized for its contributions in the arena of public service – to signature programs like Mercer On Mission that deploy students and faculty across the world to alleviate human suffering. It is found in programs like Mercer Service Scholars, which engages diverse undergraduate students in substantive service to local and international communities, while preparing them to become leaders on campus, in their professions, and in their communities.
It is found in the more than 500,000 hours of volunteer service that students in Macon, Atlanta, Savannah and Columbus contribute to their communities each year. This commitment to service led Princeton Review to name Mercer as one of its "Colleges with a Conscience."
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Mercer is one of the most decorated institutions in the nation on the 2015 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, released in 2016. The University was one of only four finalists nationally for the Presidential Award in one category (economic opportunity) and received Honor Roll with Distinction in two others (general community service and education). Mercer also earned President's Honor Roll recognition in 2014, 2013 (with distinction), 2008, 2007 and 2006.


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Those of you who actually get down on Twitter shouldn't even be surprised that it's going on this list. Ghetto people love to tweet. And you can look in every single trending topic…it's gonna be a majority percentage of ghetto people posting to it. Swearing they know what the hell they're talking about. When usually it's just some silly street sh*t they heard a few of their little friends say based on the latest rap song, then they run and tweet that like it's the gospel.
And of course, just like any social media that falls into ghetto hands, there's tons of sluts in the building too, with avatars of cleavage or the booty in nothing but panties, who for some odd reason have the nerve to post those little inspirational tweets. Shut the entire hell up, you ain't no guru…ain't you like 19? So many under-dressed broads who claim how Christian they are (as if that stands anyone on their ears) populate Twitter, it's like you're on BlackPlanet: The Next Generation.
Though they are fun to toy with on the Formspring app…but I digress.
Anyway, you can read these tweets and tell what really matters to ghetto people. One huge obsession is CHEATING. It's a sign if the times really, because this world is fascinated with cheating, and ghetto people are no exception. So many of the ghetto population are products of misdirected lovin', it's only natural.
Not to mention one can look at the "following" versus "followers" of many ghetto Tweet-fiends and the high school tendencies that only a ghetto person can appreciate become clear, like the narcissism and begging for attention, the e-thuggery, the yappin' all day about nothing…
But one has to admit, ghetto people are the spice of Twitter. Because otherwise one would be left with tweets about the Jonas Brothers or someone tryna plug their penis pump website or something.


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San Francisco, June 14, 2012 — One of the very first HIV/AIDS treatment publications is getting a digital makeover and expanding its focus. Established in 1988 by San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, or BETA, this week relaunches as an online portal for cutting-edge information on HIV treatment, prevention, and wellness. The new publication will provide daily online content to better meet the needs of a broad spectrum of readers, harness new ways of sharing knowledge, and give more people the tools to understand—and benefit from—developments in HIV research, testing, treatment, and care.
"Revitalizing this beloved publication, which has been at the forefront of HIV/AIDS news and information for nearly a quarter-century, is just one more way San Francisco AIDS Foundation is expanding to support and empower people most affected by the disease," said Neil Giuliano, CEO of San Francisco AIDS Foundation. "BETA's mission today is all about health literacy—providing tools to help readers ask smarter questions, understand meaningful developments in HIV research, and get the most from their medical care."
The launch of the new BETA coincides with the upcoming AIDS 2012 conference, happening July 22–27 in Washington, D.C.; BETA will provide comprehensive coverage leading up to, during, and following the conference. The new BETA also offers daily HIV health and prevention news; weekly columns, interviews, and opinions from advocates, researchers, care providers, and people living with HIV/AIDS; timelier coverage of what matters most to people living with the virus or learning ways to stay HIV negative; and the same accessible approach readers have come to expect from BETA for nearly 25 years.
"BETA gives all readers the information they need to take the best possible care of their health," said Reilly O'Neal, BETA editor. "Contributing writers include researchers, clinicians, advocates, and people living with HIV. They are smart folks with a passion for turning science and jargon into something everyone can understand and use."
San Francisco AIDS Foundation will continue to circulate a print version of BETA each quarter. Subscribers will automatically receive the redesigned print publication by mail.
The new BETA can be found at www.betablog.org.
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No city experienced epidemic levels of HIV faster than San Francisco. At San Francisco AIDS Foundation, we work to end the epidemic where it first took hold, and eventually everywhere. Established in 1982, our mission is the radical reduction of new infections in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and direct services for prevention and care, we are confronting HIV in communities most vulnerable to the disease. We refuse to accept that HIV transmission is inevitable. For more information visit sfaf.org.


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Iglesia Evangélica Menonita, El Salvador
The Iglesia Evangélica Menonita, El Salvador (Evangelical Mennonite Church, El Salvador) was an outgrowth of a community development project begun in 1962 when Amish Mennonite Aid (Beachy Amish Mennonite) was invited to provide workers as part of a Salvadoran government land reform program. Under the initial agreement, volunteers were not allowed to do evangelistic work and church planting but Amish Mennonite Aid (AMA) officials hoped that permission to do that would be granted once they were recognized by the government. In 1968, the first ordained minister was sent to El Salvador and began preaching services in the capital. Evangelism has been the main thrust of the AMA work since then.
In 1986 there were six regular meeting places in central and western El Salvador with 75 members and a total attendance of about 300. In 2003 there were 9 congregations with 177 members. In 1979, a Salvadoran member, Saul Pacheco, was ordained as a minister. He was serving as bishop in 1986. North American Beachy Amish missionaries and Voluntary Service workers continue to live and work in three different locations.
The church has been involved in a variety of social service projects. Perhaps the most significant was an orphanage located 30 km. (19 mi.) north of the capital, opened in 1972. More than 70 children have been adopted by families in North America by the 1980s. The orphanage was moved into the capital in 1984 because of the increasing threat of violence resulting from the civil war. A refugee assistance program is administered with Mennonite Central Committee. Clinics and day schools are operated in several areas.
Hershberger, Andrew compiler. Into the Highways and Hedges: AMA Mission Report. Plain City, OH: Amish Mennonite Aid, 1980.
Mennonite World Handbook Supplement. Strasbourg, France, and Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1984: 72.
Mennonite World Conference. "MWC - 2003 Caribbean, Central & South America Mennonite & Brethren in Christ Churches." Accessed 20 February 2006. <http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/carcsam.html>.
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Flickinger, Ron. "Iglesia Evangélica Menonita, El Salvador." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1987. Web. 22 Apr 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Iglesia_Evang%C3%A9lica_Menonita,_El_Salvador&oldid=122519.
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Flickinger, Ron. (1987). Iglesia Evangélica Menonita, El Salvador. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 April 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Iglesia_Evang%C3%A9lica_Menonita,_El_Salvador&oldid=122519.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 416. All rights reserved.
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