And the Flat Earth Society is Lurking in the Wings...

Because science is just an opinion…  (Sarcasm off.  Spitting commences.)

• Via The Raw Story, apparently there is a movie narrated by Kate Mulgrew with a "geocentric universe" viewpoint.  It's bankrolled by an ultra-conservative.  'Nuff said.  [ETA:  Kate Mulgrew responds (It's Facebook, and I can see it though I don't have an account. Basically, she says:

  I am not a geocentrist, nor am I in any way a proponent of geocentrism. More importantly, I do not subscribe to anything Robert Sungenis has written regarding science and history and, had I known of his involvement, would most certainly have avoided this documentary. I was a voice for hire, and a misinformed one, at that. I apologize for any confusion that my voice on this trailer may have caused. Kate Mulgrew")

  It turns out she was not the only person whose voice was misused; the physicist Lawrence Krauss also has a line in the trailer.]
• No More Mister Nice Blog's Yastreblyansky gets to the point:

  The difference now, because of Obama (and I know he really hates this, but it's true), is that when we call racism people believe it, and they believe it because it can't be rationalized away. The elephant in the room could be a hallucination, but not the dump it just took on your rug.

• Cerberus at Sadly, No! on the rediscovery by conservatives that young people have sex.

  There’s still a lot of work to be done. There’s a number of religious communities (you know, the one’s that are more conservative) that try and demonize safe sex and thus have proliferation of STDs and massive increases in unwanted pregnancies. And there’s all the fallout from the disastrous Abstinence-only education where a bunch of fucks like you demonized condoms and told kids that never having sex was the only way to stay safe. Also all the ways you’ve tried to undermine contraceptive access and sex education at every turn. In fact, I’m having a hard time imagining anyone to be less credible right now giving a lecture on safe sex.

• Drugs.  (Booman Tribune.)
• What, no rock 'n' roll?