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Some people may think that George Will is a dork, and he can seem a bit tightly wound, and one has to imagine that he was terribly tormented as a child in school. Yet, he often has a sharp and straight-charging way with a point. Alas, this bent is usually directed against the Left, but his column today is a particularly nice piece of work, and Monk enjoys this wit being used in the service against Intelligent Design.

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This summer's movie stars are not the usual bipeds but other animals -- emperor penguins and grizzly bears. Their performances are pertinent to some ongoing arguments.

"March of the Penguins" raises this question: If an Intelligent Designer designed nature, why did it decide to make breeding so tedious for those penguins? The movie documents the 70-mile march of thousands of Antarctic penguins from the sea to an icy breeding place barren of nutrition. These perhaps intelligently but certainly oddly designed birds march because they cannot fly. They cannot even march well, being most at home in the sea.

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