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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
I haven't given out one of these in a while, but I came across this column from the Worldview Weekend site and it just cries out for a Robert O'Brien Trophy (formerly the Idiot of the Month Award) for the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:21 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
I haven't given out a Robert O'Brien Trophy in a while, but here's someone who really deserves one: Jill Stanek. The award is given for this breathtakingly idiotic column at the Worldnutdaily where she actually claims that legalizing the purchase...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:41 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
Here's a definite Robert O'Brien Trophy candidate, Linda Kimball. She is the author of this hilariously ridiculous essay. I found out about it because Gerard Harbison, the self-proclaimed Right Wing Professor, linked to my debunking of the famous Patrick Henry...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 6:56 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
Sometimes I feel like I should send Joseph Farah, founder of the Worldnutdaily, a gift. The webmag he founded is such a fountain of sheer stupidity that he makes my job here so much easier. Virtually every day, I could...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:05 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
July's Idiot of the Month award goes to Judith Reisman, a nutty anti-anything-sexual crusader who is astonishingly popular with social conservatives. Reisman is one of the leading lights of the "abstinence-only sex ed" movement and a longtime anti-porn and anti-gay...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:52 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
I know it's only the first of the month, but this one really can't be topped. I actually had made a note of this ridiculous column by Star Parker for a possible Idiot of the Month award. In it, she...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 5:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
It's only the first week of May, but we may have found our Robert O'Brien Trophy winner already. I present to you the Rev. Chan Chandler of East Waynesville Baptist Church in North Carolina. He has begun to excommunicate anyone...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:02 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
As we come to the end of the month of April, it is once again time to award the Robert O'Brien Trophy (formerly known as the Idiot of the Month award) to a worthy recipient. This month's winner is Les...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:43 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
Scott Foust, a german literature student at the University of Cincinatti, is the winner of February's Robert O'Brien Trophy (formerly known as the Idiot of the Month award) for this breathtakingly ignorant article in the newspaper of that university. In...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:03 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Idiot of the Month Awards
For the second time in three months, Joseph Farah, owner of the Worldnutdaily, is the winner of the Robert O'Brien Trophy (formerly the Idiot of the Month Award). His latest foray into the world of sheer idiocy is this column,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:44 AM • 2 Comments •
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