The Smug Baldy Speaks

I posted a while ago about some of the shenanigans involving the expanding role of radical Islam within the Texas State Board of Education (here and here). It turns out that, while the good people of Texas were sleeping, self-appointed imams have inserted a curriculum requirement to provide an elective course to teach about the [...]

The recent murders of an American doctor in his church, and of an American security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC stand out as two examples, although depending on who you listen to, they’re seen as examples of different things. One camp says that these are tragic examples of crazed and depraved lone [...]

Here Pat Condell comments on how “the allowances we make for religion has encouraged Islam to push its way into our society, where it really doesn’t belong, and threaten all of our freedom.” Some links from the youtube post are here for support: Assault on free speech in the Netherlands Islam can no longer be [...]

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 [...]

John McCain’s got some powerful faith, and here’s where he revises history with his erroneous belief that America was founded upon Christian principles as a “Christian” nation. Never mind the fact that the founding fathers were largely deists, freethinkers, and Quakers. No, John lets his freak flag fly: HT to Les at StupidEvilBastard.com

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 [...]

I made this response on Kevin Murrell’s blog after he made the following vacuous claim: In the movie Expelled, Ben Stein gives a compelling argument for Intelligent Design. Having not seen the film yet, I can’t really comment on how compelling his argument actually was, but I suspect that it wasn’t a compelling scientific argument. [...]

In today’s eSkeptic there are not one, but two responses to Ben Stein’s new anti-evolution film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. In the first response, Ben Stein’s Blunder, Michael Shermer recounts his own strange interview for the film, as well as several fabrications, including the one at the film’s opening in which Stein lectures at Pepperdine [...]

Nobody should be required to take a neutral stance on stupidity. Indeed – here at SmugBaldy, we’re vehemently anti-stupid, so this is the sort of thing that really irks me. I had previously written a short piece about how creationists were trying to worm their way into the hall of power in Texas, and expand [...]

Just when you thought that the battle for America’s soul was won, and the forces of lunacy and idiocy had retreated to the fetid holes from which they sprang, we find that Texas will be the new battleground for creationists bent on the destruction of rational thought in science education. In an editorial today on [...]