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Best or worst birthday card ever?

While looking for a birthday card for a relative a while back, I found this card and was intrigued enough to buy it, even though it wasn’t appropriate for the person for whom I was seeking a card:

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So far, it’s just pretty standard Bush-chimp stuff, a staple of comedy ever since W. took office. But what got me was the inside of the card:

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Two points:

  1. It’s rather amazing that the whole “intelligent design” debate has become so ubiquitous that it’s showing up in birthday cards, of all things.
  2. I haven’t decided if this is the best birthday card ever or the worst birthday card ever. Opinions?

By Orac

Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)

DISCLAIMER:: The various written meanderings here are the opinions of Orac and Orac alone, written on his own time. They should never be construed as representing the opinions of any other person or entity, especially Orac's cancer center, department of surgery, medical school, or university. Also note that Orac is nonpartisan; he is more than willing to criticize the statements of anyone, regardless of of political leanings, if that anyone advocates pseudoscience or quackery. Finally, medical commentary is not to be construed in any way as medical advice.

To contact Orac: [email protected]

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