Perhaps I've chosen the wrong profession: teacher fired for saying that Genesis isn't literally true. In fairness, this paragraph makes it sound like there may be more to this story than simple academic freedom issues:

Bitterman said he called the story of Adam and Eve a "fairy tale" in a conversation with a student after the class and was told the students had threatened to see an attorney.

Via Cyn-C.

My dad is in town for a few days, so posting will probably be light even for a weekend. But there are a few interesting things going on today on the blogotubes:

* Diebold Election Systems is now Premier Election Systems. Please adjust your slogans and conspiracy theories accordingly. Via MeFi.

* Time to send a 'knowledge ark' to the Moon? I have a better idea. Also via.

* Modern Cosmology: Science or Folktale?, by the appropriately named Michael J. Disney.

* Lenin's Tomb looks at 2007 and 1929. With charts! For what it's worth, I think this overstates the case pretty significantly, but only because I place collapse a little further in the future.