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Friday, August 26, 2005

Strange bedfellows, part 2

I was not the only one who was startled to see the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among the list of donors to the Seattle-based neo-creationist think tank The Discovery Institute. This Salon.com article takes a more detailed look, although it fails to make my excellent point about how a dedicated grant still frees up money for the recipient to use for its other, suspect agenda. (You would never see the Gates Foundation arguing "we only gave to the Klan's literacy program.")

Even though I realized I had originally given my posting on this topic the malaprop title "Odd bedfellows," my favorite part of the Salon article was its quotation from a concerned biologist's e-mail message: "I am reminded of the saying, 'The wife of Caesar not only should be chaste, but also appear to be so.'" That's a remarkably longwinded and un-pithy way of saying "Caesar's wife must be above reproach." Yes, I must be allowed to make these little observations from time to time. They give me some weird satisfaction. I don't like it when established quotations are butchered.


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