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While S.S.E. members know that scorn doesn't prove that a controversial idea is right (people laughed at Darwin, after all, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown), it doesn't prove an idea is wrong, either. "What we do," says Nelson, "is give everyone a respectful hearing. If we think a speaker is doing bad science, we consider it our duty to criticize it. We get our share of lunatics, but they don't hang around long...
Penn & Teller: B_______! (Showtime, Mondays, 10 P.M. E.T.) Penn Jillette and Teller are best known as magicians who give away the secrets behind their illusions. On their raucously funny docu-opinion show, they dispel other people's illusions, subjecting everyone from creationists to animal-rights groups to gleeful, foulmouthed scorn. You don't need to agree with their world view to enjoy their arguments and gags. This show may be neither fair nor balanced, but as provocative infotainment...
Miller and other activists agree that seniors were crucial to getting a state-funded universal prekindergarten ballot measure passed in 2002 as well as a Children's Trust fund for Miami-Dade County, both of which raised the kind of pro-kid taxes that Florida retirees traditionally scorn. When the legislature last year crafted what many called an inadequate pre-K plan, thousands of elderly "condo commandos," like the Greater Aventura Citizens Association (GACA) in South Florida, deluged Tallahassee with phone calls and e-mails to help win changes like lower teacher-student ratios. At this spring's legislative session...
...Nation, that made his name and exacting standards widely known. Deciding that Conrad Aiken had become a lazy poet, Jarrell wrote, "He seems as much at ease as Merlin pulling a quarter from a schoolboy's nose." The best of Jarrell's contemporaries learned to fear his scorn but value his insights. Said Karl Shapiro after Jarrell had roughed him up in print: "I felt as if I had been run over but not hurt." Others, including Aiken, complained bitterly about "this self-appointed judge and executioner." Jarrell replied in print that "it is always hard for poets to believe...
...America Radio has achieved something significant: survival. As poignantly revealed in the HBO documentary Left of the Dial, the network had to endure media scorn, its own amateur flounderings and, nearly, financial ruin. Yet it is still on the air - not in three big cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago) and three smaller ones, as it was when it went on the air, and not on the severely reduced network it became two weeks later (after bounced checks led to L.A. and Chicago dropping out), but on 52 stations, including 15 of the top 20 markets (L.A. is back, Chicago...