Kitzmiller: the movie -- Pick your favorite actors now...
...because paramount has apparently got a serious scriptwriter signed up to do Kitzmiller v. Dover: the movie.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out. I tend to think the only way to make Dover into a watchable movie would be to basically do an Inherit the Wind remake, which would require some substantial rewriting because the plaintiffs were parents, rather than the defendant being a teacher. But on the other hand, the poor teachers in Dover were pretty seriously oppressed by William Buckingham et al., so it might work.
In other news, Nova is doing a documentary on Kitzmiller v. Dover, which will apparently include some remakes of courtroom scenes.
Everyone has already decided that Tom Hanks should play Judge Jones...
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Bruce Thompson GQ · 15 March 2006
The most important part...who plays professor Steve Steve outside the court room.
Delta Pi Gamma (Scientia et Fermentum)
mark · 15 March 2006
Ron Jeremy as Richard Thompson, Adam Sandler as Mike Behe, Joe Besser as Bill Buckingham (oops, Joe's dead; maybe Michael Richards).
Joseph O'Donnell · 15 March 2006
I would imagine the court scene where Behe ends up buried in scientific papers, then completely ignores the things would end up being the best part of the movie.
david gehrig · 15 March 2006
I'd say, do the Kind Hearts and Coronets thing. Michael Richards as Behe and Fuller and Bonsell and Cunningham and Dembski ("the aptly named Sir Not Appearing In This Film").
Heathen Dan · 15 March 2006
How will the 139 page decision be "converted" to the big screen? They have to use some of the juicy quotes, like "breathtaking inanity."
I nominate Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) as one of the plaintiffs' attorneys.
lhomer · 15 March 2006
Remember the purpose will be to make money. Paramount will not make money with a film that is unsympathetic to the 'controversy'. I expect a DI rewrite to emerge, not a documentary.
LackOfDiscipline · 15 March 2006
Ashton Kutcher should play Wee Willie Dembski (a fantasy I guess since I don't think he appeared directly at the trial). I would love to see Dembski use the line "YOU'RE GONNA GET PUNKED Darwinists" in some context.
Bruce Thompson GQ · 15 March 2006
chaos_engineer · 15 March 2006
If they want lots of money, they should make a gimmick movie.
They could shoot two endings. One where Judge Jones delivers the verdict, and another where an angry God strikes him dead and then declares a mistrial on the basis that all the plaintiffs have also been struck dead and therefore don't have standing.
Then the audience could vote on which ending they wanted to see. To boost ticket sales even further, the studio could announce that the votes will be tabulated and delivered to the judges of "American Idol" or somebody.
steve s · 15 March 2006
I want to play one of these guys:
http://www.theprogram.net.au/media/features/5467.jpg
And for casting, let's see,
Judge Jones: Morgan Freeman
Eric Rothschild: Sam Watterston
Nick Matzske: Denzel Washington
Barbara Forrest: Julia Roberts
and then for the defense, we could have
William Buckingham: Nick Nolte
Alan Bonsell: Alan Rickman
Michael Behe: that guy who played Mola Ram in Temple of Doom
Scott Minnich: Peter Stormare
John West: Doug Bradley (pinhead from the Hellraiser movies)
Richard Thompson: Saddam Hussein
Keanus · 15 March 2006
I think Behe would be best acted by Danny Divito. He's great a playing con men, and is bald and short to boot.
Seriously, however, while capturing the court room testimony could be riveting, I think the scenes that led up to it---the school board meetings, private tete-a-tetes among the various parties, the late night phone calls, the efforts at backtracking to cover and deny earlier statements, the arrival of Richard Thompson with his "sword and shield", and the various efforts at dissembling after the fac t---could make for a gripping film. The decision would almost be an afterthought and might be best addressed as a scrolling conclusion. The interplay between the DI, its various "fellows", the TMLC, Buckingham and Bonsell, the superintendent, the Browns, and the plaintiffs could be an engrossing study in human behavior.
Karen · 15 March 2006
Is Weta going to do the cgi? William Buckingham's nose will have to grow longer every time he lies under oath.
steve s · 15 March 2006
you know they'll juice it up a bit for the movies. They'll have a flashback of Richard Thompson robbing 7-11's in the early 80s. Behe shows up for the trial drunk and tries to touch some children inappropriately.
Simon Linke · 15 March 2006
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Bill Dembski...A change of glasses and another oscar winning performance!
minusRusty · 15 March 2006
I figure it would be better as a comedic pseudo-documentary. A la, Breast Men, or The Pentagon Wars.
Gary Hurd · 15 March 2006
That would be such a good plug for Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design and Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
I want to play myself. Oh, I wasn't there. Bummer.
I'll just play by myself. ;-)
speck · 16 March 2006
I would like to see all defense characters played by Hollywood Scientologists. That would give some wiggle room for a sequel
dangaz · 16 March 2006
Have we learnt nothing from South Park? "Tom Hanks couldn't act his way out of a nutsack!"
Torbjorn Larsson · 16 March 2006
Oh no! When has Hollywood ever got the _science_ right?! I'm afraid, I'm very afraid... ;-)
KC · 16 March 2006
I think Jack Nicholson should play Judge Jones. Just hearing him say 'blatant inanity' would be worth the price of admission.
Occam's Aftershave · 16 March 2006
It's a damn shame Don Knotts just passed away. He would have made a great Dembski.
Mark Perakh · 16 March 2006
While it is always risky to predict future events, the past experience seems to portend a movie that will have little resemblance to what actually happened in Kitzmiller case. There are several videos and full size movies about the nonsense of the Bible code. Except for the BBC version which, although not quite truthful, is not completely biased in favor of codes, all the rest shamefully present the codes as a proven fact and almost completely ignore the critique of that fad. This is understandable: if codes are real, it is a sensational discovery, but if there are no codes, so what? So, let's wait and see - what kind of a movie it turns out to be.
Alan Fox · 16 March 2006
Hope you have managed to get back to some sort of normality after that disastrous fire, Professor Perakh.
Billy Redden ought to play Dembski. He was the guy with the banjo in "Deliverance".
argystokes · 16 March 2006
Holy crap, Alan, I nearly burst out laughing when I saw Billy Redden's name appear (I would have, but my wife's sleeping nearby). Billy also made a cameo in Big Fish -- you guessed it, playing the banjo!
Anyway, I'd love to see Buckingham played by Gary Oldman, and Judge Jones played by William H Macy, with that disgusted look on his face throughout the entire trial.
Alejandro · 16 March 2006
Surely there must be a scene where Pat Robertson threatens the people of Dover with the Warth of God (tm). So who will play Pat?
the pro from dover · 16 March 2006
The man who was born to play Pat Robertson is Fred Willard.
Jack Krebs · 16 March 2006
Professor Steve Steve will play himself, of course. He;s omni-talented and virtually omni-present, so this should be no problem.
Grey Wolf · 16 March 2006
The only "crackpot idea" film I have seen is JFK, which quite impressed me and almost made me a conspiracy theorist back when I was quite young.
As I grew up, I saw the main weakness of the film: we only get to see the conspiracy's side! The same can be done in this film - present the sound bit arguments of the IDiots and simple do not show the great work of Science and obscure the actual ruling like they did in JFK so you think it was some devious plot of the government for keeping the truth from getting out.
After all, if you get told that "Science can't explain the [insert IC thing here]" without the follow up "Here is the pile of papers that explains it - have you read them?" you will come out thinking that it was indeed a nefarious plot.
I agree with Mark - a film can easily be turned into an IDiot propaganda piece, even if they badly lost in the Real Life.
Hope that helps,
Grey Wolf
Roland Anderson · 16 March 2006
Somehow I ended up transporting the whole thing back to the 1940s...
Judge Jones: Sydney Greenstreet
Rothschild: Humphrey Bogart
Forrest: Ingrid Bergman
Behe: Peter Lorre
Matzke: Dooley Wilson (Play it, Sam!)
steve s · 16 March 2006
Patrick Hagerty · 16 March 2006
Keith Douglas · 16 March 2006
My, isn't this an odd turn of events. I too am worried that this will do more harm than good. Mind you, I (embarassingly) have never seen Inherit the Wind so I don't know what has to be lived up to.
science nut · 16 March 2006
Latest Patwah: Do not go to see this film or God will turn his back on you.
And for comic relief...how can they work Mike Argento into the film?
shiva · 16 March 2006
The guy who played Mola Ram in the Temple of Doom - Amrish Puri - passed away two years ago.
steve s · 16 March 2006
Dammit. Okay, we'll have to go with the Adam Sandler suggestion.
Behe: Nobody can explain how the immune system could evolve.
Rothschild: How about these dozens of books and papers?
Behe: Well FLIPPIDYDOOOOOO!
wamba · 16 March 2006
Every Hollywood insider knows the surest path to an Oscar is to play a handicapped person or a hooker. I predict a long and distinguished queue of seasoned actors begging to play the role of Bill Buckingham.
Paul Callahan · 16 March 2006
I've wanted to see Wallace Shawn play Michael Behe for a while now. Shawn is nine years older than Behe and I'm not sure if the heights match, but I think there's enough resemblance to work with.
Shawn: http://images.zap2it.com/20041026/25_theincredibles.jpg
Behe: http://www.answersingenesis.org/images/Behe1.jpg
All Shawn would need for the part is to reprise Vizzini from The Princess Bride.
"It would take billions of bacteria to ever evolve a new disulfide bond. It's inconceivable."
"Ever heard of Darwin, Gould, Dawkins? Morons!"
wamba · 16 March 2006
Folks, we're living in the CGI era. We are no longer constrained by which actors are still alive. Spencer Tracy could play the Eric Rothschild role.
steve s · 16 March 2006
""It would take billions of bacteria to ever evolve a new disulfide bond. It's inconceivable.""
LOL
PaulC · 16 March 2006
There's got to be a fit for Chris Cooper somewhere here.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177933/
He played the dad in October Sky and the neighbor's scary dad in American Beauty.
For some reason he popped into my mind when I was thinking about Dembski (maybe Dembski's serial killer glare), but that would be a stretch. Cooper could definitely do somebody on the creationist side, though, most likely one of those confused folks who habitually forgets that you're not supposed to keep declaring your faith in Jesus when explaining why you want to get ID in the schools.
Space_Monkey · 16 March 2006
Well, casting choices aside, I'm not sure that this kind of movie will be a good thing for our side of the culture fight. Why? Because if the director chooses to "teach the controversy", portraying ID as legitimate in any way, then the public will see ID as legit and come away thinking that there is a controvesry. It's like media coverage of global warming - most pieces say that there is a controversy about its existence and cause, when the reality is that the vast majority of real research concludes that it is happening and that it has human causes. The result is that the public remains ignorant.
wamba · 16 March 2006
We all know that by the time Hollywood gets done with it, the actual factual historical story will be unrecognizable. So, let's throw caution to the wind and make it an Action blowout!
Ahnold as Judge Jones.
Bruce Willis as Behe.
Vin Diesel as Eric Rothschild.
Lucy Lawless as Barbara Forrest.
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Tammy Kitzmiller.
An over-the-hill Stallone as Richard Thompson.
Tim Curry as Dembski.
We'll have to find a way to work in Lucy Liu.
Hamumu · 16 March 2006
"Irreducible complexity."
"You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean."
guthrie · 16 March 2006
Surely you could play it as a spoof.
So when Behe dismisses the papers on flagella, he gets buried under mounds of paper.
fred · 16 March 2006
Dean Morrison · 16 March 2006
Here is a great article written a couple of months ago speculating on how such a movie would turn out - it also give a readable summary of what happened at the trial:
"Monkey Trial Take Two" (from 'The Valley News')
Since all the 'bad guys' in American Movies are played by Englishmen can I nominate the Monty Python Crew for the School Board?
PaulC · 16 March 2006
Frank J · 16 March 2006
The guy who played Marmalard in "Animal House" would make a great Dembski. Sadly, we recently lost John Vernon, who played Dean Wormer. He'd have been a great Phillip Johnson.
The DI really didn't want to defend Dover since they promoted the old scam, not the designer-free new one. So picture this scene:
Johnson, realizing that the DI could not afford to be silent, calls Dembski to his office: "Bill, what's the worst theory in the universe?" As Dembski tries to weasel out of an answer, Johnson, holding up a copy of "Darwin on Trial" interrupts: "Cut the [expletive deleted], I have its file right here." After outlining the defense plan, he says "Put Behe on it, he's a sneaky little [expletive deleted] just like you."
wamba · 16 March 2006
We could get a bonobo to play Alan Bonsell.
Bruce Thompson GQ · 16 March 2006
ag · 16 March 2006
Since Dembski did not appear in the trial, he is not supposed to appear in the movie, or is he? If yes, then the best actor would be Jay Leno - the chin is already there, so a minimal make-up would be needed; then Dembski's great discoveries make him a successful comedian anyway.
Steviepinhead · 16 March 2006
shenda · 16 March 2006
Space_Monkey wrote:
"Well, casting choices aside, I'm not sure that this kind of movie will be a good thing for our side of the culture fight. Why? Because if the director chooses to "teach the controversy", portraying ID as legitimate in any way, then the public will see ID as legit and come away thinking that there is a controvesry. It's like media coverage of global warming - most pieces say that there is a controversy about its existence and cause, when the reality is that the vast majority of real research concludes that it is happening and that it has human causes. The result is that the public remains ignorant."
Agreed. It could also be spun into a propaganda piece showing how Christians are being persecuted by the evil ACLU and their fellow travelers.
k.e. · 16 March 2006
Of course you are missing the 2 most important players
Jack Nicholson for God (or Carol Clouser she know him quite well ...no not Nicholson god))
Morgan Freeman for the devil.
Scene at a seedy motel in Dover where they are watching Behe talking about Tarot Cards and mind reading.
God and the devil are sitting in their underwear drinking beer and having a pizza cheering on their contenders.
The Devils face lights up as Rothchild beats Behe to the punch with the lines
Behe: "I began to think wouldn't it be nice to be able to...."
Rothchild: "read gods mind"
Behe: "Huh?"
Rothchild: "You thought 'wouldn't it be nice to be able to read gods mind'"
God: "Hey that's not fair"
The Devil: "Don't look at me I didn't do it"
Jones: "Don't forget to include me"
God: "Do that once more and I'll land one right on your nose"
The Devil:"I'm telling you, its not me"
Behe "uh yeah that's right .....read gods mind"
Fight breaks out in motel room.
Lenny's Pizza Guy · 16 March 2006
FWIW, I really did deliver pizza to a motel room once where Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman were sitting around drinking.
But they had their clothes on (the air conditioning at The Radisson was working fine).
And they weren't drinking beer (looked like Black Jack to me...but I didn't perform a sampling).
And they weren't watching a trial. They were watching boxing on the tube.
But, still, ke, that was scary close...!
The key thing here is going to be how they word this in the credits. Is the movie going to be taken "from" a true story, "based" on a true story, or merely "inspired by" a story that we sure wish had happened, once upon a time? You gotta watch out for those who are inspired.
AD · 16 March 2006
Mr Christopher · 16 March 2006
wamba · 16 March 2006
Matt Young · 16 March 2006
May I suggest an opera?
Jones - Placido Domingo
Buckingham - Samuel Ramey
Kitzmiller - Deborah Voigt
Forrest - Renee Fleming
Justice - Andrea Bocelli
Composer - John Corigliano
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of James Levine (as soon as his shoulder heals).
wamba · 16 March 2006
Cast? This movie needs a title! How about: Inherit the $1M legal fees ?
k.e. · 16 March 2006
Nice one Matt
Suggested Titles
"Love and death in Dover" no too frivolous
perhaps "The DIng Cycle" suitability long and tedious
"The Monkey King" hmmm
Opening scene Monkey dressed as a lawyer sings he was not descended from monkeys..
Bruce Thompson GQ · 16 March 2006
steve s · 16 March 2006
J Max · 16 March 2006
J. Early · 16 March 2006
A historically accurate movie about the Kitzmiller case would be very dull -- just as the play Inherit the Wind would have been very dull if it had been historically accurate about the Scopes trial. Also, a historically accurate movie about the Kitzmiller case would just be seen as politically correct propaganda for Darwinism.
I would like to see the movie portray Judge Jones and lead plaintiffs` attorney Rothschild as villains. Here are some possibilities --
Rothschild saying, ``I have an idea -- let`s drive up the potential attorney fees award by assigning an excessive number of attorneys to the case.``
Judge Jones could conspire to steal the privileged attorney-client message that the board received from its solicitor -- this is the message that he used against the board in his written opinion.
There were several instances where Judge Jones strained at gnats and swallowed camels -- any of these instances could be played up in the movie. Especially questionable was his rejection of the Pandas book publisher`s motion to be admitted to the case as an intervenor.
Gordon · 16 March 2006
I recall Lenny Flank's eloquent role as the founder of the DebunkCreation group that donated 23 science books to the Dover Senior High School Library. Will that be a pivotal background part in the role of this movie?
I can see pizza commercial promotions (such as Pizza Hut, Domino's) to sponsor this movie. Imagine a scene with Lenny behind his PC typing a response to Mrs. Shelia Harkins about the donated books his group sent to the Dover School Library (the voice of William Shatner reading his response as he types) and ordering pizza. The pizza delivery boy shows up with his Disco Institute pizza supreme loaded with evolutionary Irreducible complexity pepperoni and drowning that with Beer. Oh, The Heineken Beer commercials for this movie comes into play. Scene One Act attempt Beer drinking for the absurdity of Intelligent Drinking! Hic!
Lenny's Pizza Guy · 16 March 2006
Good idea: a pivotal role for pizza delivery. I'm sure the midnight oil-burning of our heroic trial teams were fueled by high-quality pizza calories, delivered hot and on-time.
Not-so-good idea: corporate chain pizza parlors. First, I don't work for outfits like that because, second, they make crappy pizza and, third, if you'll look into the antics of their founders, you'll find them as unsupportive of good science as they are of quality nutrition.
steve s · 16 March 2006
Too bad Chris Farley is dead.
Hi everybody I've been down in the basement poppin pills all day. Lemme tell you a little about myself. I'm Bill Buckingham and I Live In a VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER. WHOSE GONNA STAND UP FOR JESUS?!?!?!?
(passes out, falls through podium)
'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank · 16 March 2006
Hey, lookie --- Larry has a new name. Again.
'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank · 16 March 2006
Steviepinhead · 16 March 2006
Predictably, perhaps, Larry/Andy's latest sex, er, name change celebrates his Civil War-battle-flag, "Lost Cause" fetish:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Anderson_Early .
You're not even amusing anymore, Larry. What are we going to get next, Meteorite-Denial Guy?
Lenny's Pizza Guy · 16 March 2006
And, as long as we're working Lenny into the plot, I want my pivotal role to be played by Leonardo Dicaprio.
Not that I'm vain or anything (hey, his plane barely flew; my kayak barely floated--what's the diff?).
And my girlfriend, who I didn't actually have at the time, but am still working real hard on hooking up with, can be played by Scarlett Johansen.
Heck, it's okay with me if they write it so that I blow my only chance to become, um, better acquainted with Scarlett because I'm (er, I mean, Lenny, that is, I mean Leonardo) on my, that is, his way to make an all-important pizza delivery. Just so I get to visit the set and meet her!
Ah, dang, this gets confusing--how does that Larry/Andy/Jubal Early guy keep it all straight?
Maybe I should just play myself, after all, even if I don't have the box-office draw of Leonardo (did his parents really name him after a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?). That way, it would at least be the real me getting rejected by Scarlett Johansen.
the pro from dover · 16 March 2006
I think the head honcho of Domino's pizza would rather have his daughter take a plan B tablet than in any way shape or form do anything to give the tiniest suggestion that in the remotest way he would support materialistic science education in the USA. This man is Rushdooney Junior who hides in the bulrushes while spending his billions on sabotaging our secular government. If Lenny's Pizza Delivery boy worked for this living threat even for the big bucks he pays then Lenny deserves to be played by Barney in the upcoming movie. (INHERIT THE sWINDle?). By the way what ever happened to that Guiness evolution commercial that was so cool? Has it played anywhere in the USA or is it too controversial? Brilliant!!!.
Bruce Thompson GQ · 16 March 2006
To be fair since the Rev Dr Lenny Flank, Lenny's Pizza Guy, Gary Hurd, and steve s have all expressed an interest in playing roles in the film it seems only fair to expand the list and include ID supporters. Lets see, there's.....
There are lots of bit parts that will need actors and who is better qualified than those who are most familiar with the issues? Who would bring more passion to these small roles than those who have argued over these issues, individuals from both sides of the aisle. People from both sides would bring a level of enthusiasm to the set that not seen on many movies. I think the directors would be amazed how helpful these groups could be in bringing a sense of realism to the movie. Of course there will be a few bumps. There will always be someone trying to rewrite everyone's lines or trying to ban people from the set. Others would try to derail the script into obscure discussions or someone would be constantly showing up for scenes trying to play others roles. But all in all it could be a very positive experience.
Delta Pi Gamma (Scientia et Fermentum)
Steviepinhead · 16 March 2006
So, way in the back of the crowd outside the courthouse, passionately waving the Confederate battle-flag, we'd have Larry, until Andy grabbed it from him, until J. Early yanked it from Andy's grasp, at which point Lenny would yell, "Shut up, Larry!" and then they'd all get poofed to The Bathroom Wall in a wizardly display of CGI?
Cut!
steve s · 16 March 2006
steve s · 16 March 2006
And occasionally I'll cup my hands around my mouth and yell, "YOU SUCK"
Justin Olson · 16 March 2006
Hopefully they can get Milos Forman to direct.
Torbjorn Larsson · 16 March 2006
"Billy Redden ought to play Dembski. He was the guy with the banjo in "Deliverance"."
No, in the Dover case I think Dembski should pay the piper, while Behe is a fiddler.
"Sarah Michelle Gellar as Tammy Kitzmiller."
Too tame. I vote for Jessica Alba, she kicks ass.
GvlGeologist, FCD · 17 March 2006
OK, I gotta wonder about J. Early - is it really Larrandy or is it a spoof? Could he really be that obvious? I'm thinking it's someone else channelling L. Farfromreality.
As someone else said, it really is hard to tell when the other side is being spoofed.
And with that, good night and have a great St. Patty's day!
Torbjorn Larsson · 17 March 2006
"Judge Jones strained at gnats and swallowed camels"
Is that what ID makes us do? Seems ardous and dangerous.
Anyway, objections to the ruling should be made at a retrial, which the ID side didn't want. Now it's too late, thank crud!
J. Early · 17 March 2006
Renier · 17 March 2006
Go away Larry. You are really boring.
Fernmonkey · 17 March 2006
I think that Jeremy Irons should play Bill Buckingham.
Lousy casting, but there has to be an English villain.
Stephen Elliott · 17 March 2006
Lou FCD · 17 March 2006
I'm chuckling at the thought of R. Lee Ermey yelling "breathtaking inanity... Maggots!"
wamba · 17 March 2006
Prof. Steve Steve may be busy with civil rights activism in Singapore, where they apparently don't enjoy the same freedom to arm bears. I think he can still do his parts for the movie, but it will take judicious scheduling.
KC · 17 March 2006
The guy that plays Sloane on "Alias", Ron Rifkin, resembles Behe.
Moses · 17 March 2006
Both John Travolta and Tom Cruise need to have roles on the ID side. I'm not sure who'd they be, but since they both have horribly limited ranges and are well into the lunatic fringe, they'd be perfect.
Corkscrew · 17 March 2006
k.e. · 17 March 2006
J. Early the Ghost of confederacies/fascist regimes past, blurts a Lawrence Fafarman-ism.
Larry if mankind's collective wisdom is too much for you, consider the Jesus solution.
With regard to charity Jesus said "let not the left hand know what the right hand is doing" a subtle take on his Kaiser's Penny, it applies in your case to the unswallowable, the embarrassing case of being caught out by your own ridiculous pride.
jeez Larry you are such a twit.
k.e. · 17 March 2006
OK Larry I know that was TOO cute for you to absorb.
The point is THIS.
You think the ToE is irrational right? OK !
The only thing that makes sense to you is godditit right ?
OK !
Your Mother is to blame here, sorry for that bad news, mommy's hairy helper actually did what you wanted to do but ...well its too late now, you're doomed to camels. Freud said the best thing to do to get even, was to kill her... or was that he thought... that was... what you thought you wanted to do or the hairy helper?
Anyway on the rational vs irrational thingy.
The best ting to do is to concede that irrational Darwinism (part of your ego) is something you have no control over and not let the rational biblical liberalism (side of your ego) beat yourself up, your NAME (ego) can do itself some real damage if you let that happen. Such as changing it so often you don't know who you are.
Oedipus is not a myth, he types at a keyboard in LA and decorates his bedroom with confederate flags.
Gary Hurd · 17 March 2006
Well, this is shaping up quite well. One major gap in casting is the part of Nick Matzke, and his secret overlord Genie. Wes can play himself confronted with ??? (who was that YEC clown at the courthouse steps?).
I am sure that Nic is alread deeply involved with negociations. ;-)
eTourist · 17 March 2006
Behe's courtroom heckler should be played by that guy at every green at every golf tournament shouting "Get in the hole!"
GvlGeologist, FCD · 17 March 2006
Corkscrew said:
"I believe that this adequately settles the question."
I gotta agree. Larrandy Farfromentertaining has really become a parody of himself. Can we possibly ignore him and have him go away?
wamba · 17 March 2006
DJ · 17 March 2006
I want Rob Reiner to do it as a mockumentary of the Dover School Board a la This Is Spinal Tap. I want to see the Thomas More Law Center strategy sessions, I want to see Trolls drawing up the Wedge Strategy, I want to see Behe's Moonie Wedding, I want to see Bill Dembski in a small dark room with one swinging lightbulb sitting over his laptop furiously deleting comment after comment on his blog...
Besides, if it's not a comedy it will be a tragedy.
Torbjorn Larsson · 17 March 2006
#By "retrial," I presume that you mean "appeal" (they are not the same)."
Since the other bloggers implies you are a troll which change names and they furthermore put your argument up where it belongs, I will merely say that I'm not a native english speaker so you presumed correctly.
I know this is awful if you are a troll, since in that case your mode of action is to be terribly wrong all the time. A tip is that if you don't post, you will not take the very low risk to be right because it will hurt you considerably.
Raging Bee · 20 March 2006
Wow, this whole post was a joke, and Larry Farfromaman couldn't even get into the spirit of the joke. It sure ain't pretty when a guy who was never smart enough to have a sense of humor starts going senile...
Bakbook Yahyin · 13 April 2006
Remembering a one time great looking young (then in the 1960's) actress named Mitzi Gaynor. She co-starred in 'South Pacific' with Ezio Pinza (who is no doubt long dead.) Was wondering whatever happened to her?
Also whatever happened to Bruce Dern? BBY
Mike Flacklestein · 16 June 2006
I live at 31407 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?