I came across this blog post about a bar in Georgia selling racist pictures that equate Barack Obama with Curious George the monkey.  I was shocked until I scrolled through the post and saw that this was being sold in none other than Cobb county.  That’s Cobb “Our school board is putting stickers on science […]

After my post concerning the Alabama legislature the site was visited by C. David Parsons, author of a seven-volume textbook called The Quest for Right that claims to finally provide a synthesis of science and the Bible.  Now that I’ve read through his site I’ll have more to say about Quest for Right in future […]

After reading through some of the comments on the most excellent Bad Astronomy blog it appears that the Academic Freedom bill I mentioned in my previous post might have died simply because they’re at the end of their legislative session and all of the leftover junk is just being rushed off the docket.  I’d like […]

The National Center for Science Education is reporting that an effort to get Intelligent Design into the state science curriculum under the guise of academic freedom for teachers has failed. This is definitely a good thing. The Intelligent Design crowd had their asses handed to them in the Dover trial back in 2005, […]

You can’t make this sort of thing up.  A substitute teacher in Land ‘O Lakes Florida has been sacked for wizardry.  The exact brand of wizardry?  He made a toothpick disappear for about half a minute and then made it magically reappear.  For this he is fired.
Now I’ll be the first to admit that there […]

I came across this page in my random surfing yesterday and it got me to thinking. The page is maintained by a born-again Presbyterian who looks to have a slightly left-leaning political view judging from a glance around his site (Thanks to Riker from Prose Justice for pointing this out to me, I’d originally identified […]

Today is chock full of religiously motivated stupidity, and I haven’t even had time to brush up on Christian News Wire.  But for today’s first post I’m going to shift gears away from mainstream religion for a moment and tackle some good old-fashioned superstition.
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call?  The […]

Know the candidates is something that will become a regular feature here in election years.  These posts will cover the religious beliefs and background, and how those beliefs have influenced their political lives over the years.
I’m starting this feature with John McCain mainly because he has broken ahead of the pack as the front runner […]

It’s time to tackle some more creationist stupidity, this time from blogger and Intelligent Design proponent DaveScot at the Uncommon Descent blog.  Dave argues that, all evidence to the contrary aside, the state of science education in America is just fine.  You almost can’t blame a creationist for holding onto an incorrect belief in the […]

Those wacky short-earth creationists are at it again.  They lost the Intelligent Design fight in court back in 2004, so now they’re going straight to the source in an attempt to discredit the entire scientific body of knowledge supporting evolution by resorting to the oldest and most childish of logical fallacies: the ad hominem attack.  […]