I don't know Jack McCullough, but he must be a very smart guy

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There's a poll! Woo hoo!

And the options are:

Ben Stein

— right wing gasbag and all around buffoon

and that's it. This is my kind of poll.

You have got to love that Poll!
Difficult to crash, thought.

Well it's always good knowing that there is fair bit of rational back up out there in the wild :) Maybe you lot can finally start to take back most of your country from the IDiots and creotards.

By John Phillips, FCD (not verified) on 26 Feb 2009 #permalink

OT, but can we arrange some way for Pharynguloids (Pharyngulites?) to recognize each other at Richard Dawkins' talk next Wednesday evening? And are we getting together afterward somewhere? I'm flying in from Champaign and don't want to miss anything!

By recovering catholic (not verified) on 26 Feb 2009 #permalink

OT, but can we arrange some way for Pharynguloids (Pharyngulites?) to recognize each other at Richard Dawkins' talk next Wednesday evening? And are we getting together afterward somewhere? I'm flying in from Champaign and don't want to miss anything!

By recovering catholic (not verified) on 26 Feb 2009 #permalink

I nominate Jack McCullough for an honorary Molly.

By 'Tis Himself (not verified) on 26 Feb 2009 #permalink

Recovering catholic @#8 (& #9):

Use the secret handshake ;)

By Peter McKellar (not verified) on 26 Feb 2009 #permalink

Stein is some piece of work. He'd get my vote for most gratuitous Creationist quote miner for that hatchet job on a passage from Darwin's Descent of Man. Shameful.

With all due respect PZ, comparisons with Stein is hardly the stuff of fair competitions. There really are'nt many nice things that can be said about Ben Stein. ;) lol.

By Teddydeedodu (not verified) on 26 Feb 2009 #permalink

The bearded gentleman sounded nice enough, but the giggling host annoyed me too much to bother listening to more than the introduction.

Still, gasbag it is.