The Smug Baldy Speaks

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 [...]

With every presidential candidate shifting into total balls-out (or labia-out, as the case may be) pander-or-perish mode, I think it’s important to cut through the inane hype where possible, and get at their positions on issues that matter to me. One such issue is education. While the uneducated and undereducated aren’t necessarily stupid, they’re still [...]

Today’s Seed Daily Zeitgeist had a really cool link to a portion of a talk given by Ken Miller about a prediction made by evolution that, if wrong, could allow for the rejection of the entire theory. Guess we’re not rejecting evolution today. Ain’t science grand?

In the good old days, the blind led the blind, and even so, snake-oil salesmen were relatively easy to spot. Now the snake-oil is well marketed by cool-looking websites like Overwhelming Evidence, where kids are encouraged to, “communicate their views on intelligent design and evolution”. Indeed, OE puts the power in student’s hands” We believe [...]

On another blog, someone asked this about the Alabama school board : Again, I ask, when did it get to be a good and acceptable thing in this country to be so fucking stupid? My response: You know, to me it’s tempting to fall into the trap of calling evolution deniers stupid. But it’ a [...]