I completely forgot to post a Happy Darwin Day message on Saturday. Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. That was also the same day that Abraham Lincoln was born (though there is some dispute over that, I guess). More importantly, February 12th is also the birthday of Brent Rasmussen's wife. Brent said he was going to celebrate her birthday by "performing dramatic interpretations of excerpts from Origin Of Species", which is both unorthodox and likely to land him in the doghouse. Brent, I suggest flowers are more appropriate, and if you want a Darwin connection to them, just make them orchids. You can thank me later.
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By popular request. Comments from Brent and folks arguing with him are cluttering up more useful discussions. All comments by Brent and responses to comments by Brent should go in this thread. I can't move comments in MT, so I'll just delete comments that appear in the wrong thread.
Hot on the heels of the first Orac-free Skeptics' Circle in two years, amazingly, another Skeptics' Circle is coming around the pike far faster than I would have