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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Bad news Dad. Your polls are way down.
My polls?
You rate especialy low among tigers and six year old white males.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
May 31, 2007
Category: Politics
Errm, why haven't we started the impeachment proceedings on George W. Bush yet? Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!"...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:00 PM • 57 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Earlier, I was mildly perturbed that Canada was leading my country in the cheesy science "museum" race; this is, of course, a race to the bottom. Scott Hatfield has come to my rescue, though, and sent in some photos of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:57 PM • 59 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Ha ha, pathetic Canadians. They've put up their own creation "museum"—just look at it. It's feeble. It's like someone took a cheap suburban ranch-style home and put a sign on it and started charging admission to come take a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:22 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: Kooks
Laura Mallory wants to ban the Harry Potter books from public schools, and she took her case to court. This is a perfect example of a mixed message: At Tuesday's hearing, Mallory argued in part that witchcraft is a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:30 PM • 87 Comments •
Category: Politics
Suddenly, it makes sense. Schizophrenia is a methodology. Now we also know who is watching....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:56 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: Politics
Sam Brownback has an op-ed in the NY Times today, in which he explains with much straining at gnats why he was one of the Republicans who did not believe in evolution. Short summary: he reveals his own misconceptions...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:13 PM • 195 Comments •
Category: Environment
Long time readers will know how fond I am of the Index to Creationist Claims, a long list of common creationist arguments linked to short, pithy rebuttals with references. Now the gang at Gristmill have done the same thing for...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:56 AM • 22 Comments •
Category: Politics
If you're concerned about the military appropriation of an important fossil site, here's more information. It's not just some old rocks, it's a historical and ecologically significant site that's about to be overrun by a bloated military. The Picket Wire...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:31 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Academics
People keep > Professors Who Blog > May 15, 2007" href="http://techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196604461">keep interviewing me for articles on academic blogging. I'm always giving the same answers. I've got to start getting more creative—next time, I'm going to have to say something about...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:40 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Politics
I'm not a fanatic about gun control—guns are dangerous tools, but so are chainsaws—but sometimes…man, sometimes I think we ought to put more restrictions on them to keep them out of the hands of dangerously stupid people. Take this story,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 143 Comments •
