So much contradiction in the news today.

So the Dems managed to defeat the ANWR drilling provision that Sen. Hulk (R. Anger Management) tacked onto the defense appropriations bill [and whatever you think about drilling in ANWR, this was a grossly inappropriate way to try to cram it down everyone's throat]. And a conservative Republican district court judge in PA accepted reality, deciding that "intelligent design" was nothing more than a subterfuge for inserting the judeo-christian version of creation into public school science curricula [and whatever you think about natural selection, this Q&A and article clearly show that the judge's conclusions in this case were simply inescapable], and thus unconstitutional. So, small amounts of responsible behavior and sanity ...

and then there was the rest of the paper ...

Dick Cheney (R. Hell's Half-acre) growling that warrantless spying on citizens within the US was perfectly acceptable, and indeed necessary, because even thinking about going to the Court that granted 99.98% of warrant applications was too great a burden ("we had to destroy the democracy in order to save it").

And our local dumbassembly members determining that the last thing we want is an aesthetically pleasing city, or one where people are in any way encouraged to get out of their cars ...

simply put, the nutjobs are in charge