These aren't quite pointless polls, since comments are actually being solicited instead of mindless clicks, but you can still swamp the forces of silliness in thise two blog entries.
One asks, Charles Darwin: brilliant scientist or agent of Satan?. You can give any kind of answer you want, like "Charles Darwin was a brilliant scientific agent of Satan!". Have fun.
The second one sounds even more fun: recommend new names for Falwell's Liberty University. I'm going to have to echo Hitchens' infamous comment about Falwell post mortem, and suggest that since the place has voided itself of it's biggest chunk of effluent, it should now be called Matchbox U.
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