Author: Mark

Mark works as a [REDACTED] for [REDACTED], currently residing in Iowa. CoffeeBear.net is a place for him to blather on about whatever strikes his fancy. He currently spends his "free" time working on a photography project, playing with his cat and attempting to keep his wife happy (not necessarily in that order).

As you’ve probably noticed by now, I’ve found a work around to the plugin problems. From what I’ve been able to determine so far, the plugin is having problems calling in the Amazon product images for my sidebar. For now, I’ve reconfigured the plugin to display the text without images which seems to be mostly working though my sidebar is now getting tossed down to the bottom of the page. *sigh*

Update: Actually, it appears a different plugin is the source of the sidebar being shoved down. This other plugin adds in it’s own CSS; so I’ll be looking at that to try fixing the issue. Life is never easy.

Kansas education board downplays evolution

Risking the kind of nationwide ridicule it faced six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.

I don’t know why I feel somewhat surprised by this, but I am. I suppose, like many people, I expected there would be enough rational people on the Kansas Board of Education that the vote wouldn’t got this way. At least, that’s how I was looking at the issue until I got to this portion of the article:

All six of those who voted for the new standards were Republicans.

After all back in August, Dubyah endorsed the teaching of “Intelligent Design”. That should have been a sign that ID was nonense, but unfortunately it appears these board members voted along party lines rather than for what’s right.

*sigh* What a screwed up world we live in.

CoffeeBear.net is currently experiencing some problems. We are aware of the issue and looking into it. We’ll let you know when we have it fixed.

Update: The problem appears to be related to the plugin I’ve been using to display books and whatnot down the side of the site. I’m still investigating why this started happening and will restore the site to normal once I’ve got it fixed.