The Smug Baldy Speaks

You’re about to travel through another dimension, a dimension not of logic and reason, but of political influence and deep pockets. Your are journeying into a land where up is down, and more pollution is less pollution. If you could read that signpost through the smog, you would know you’ve entered the Alabama Department of [...]

In my ongoing series about how local non-scientists are attempting to make scientific appeals to include intelligent design in public science classrooms in Alabama, I bring you this tidbit that appeared in yesterday’s Mobile Press Register. In letter titled, “Science not beyond error” a minister from a local Church of Christ argued: Herein lies the [...]

In a recent opinion piece in our local paper, the author announced support for something he oxymoronically called “non-religious” intelligent design (or ID), and went further to claim that this version of ID was more scientific than its predecessor since it made no claim as to the identity of the mysterious universal designer. The author, [...]

There are fewer controversies in science that get people more worked up than the battle between creationists and scientists over the Theory of Evolution. On the whole, this tug of war typically pits faith against scientific rigor and observable data. Recently, in my home state of Alabama, there have been calls to inject something oxymoronically [...]

The Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday that would allow the sale of “Gourmet Beers” that contain higher levels of alcohol than currently allowed by law. A group of beer enthusiasts calling themselves Free the Hops lobbied for the change, saying that without such a law, Alabamians would only be allowed to [...]

This election year, the big muckety mucks in the Alabama State Government wanted to increase the prestige of our oft-backward little state, so they decided that it would be a good idea to move the Alabama primary election from June to February the 5th, so Alabama could be part of the sweet political bacchanal that [...]