MP James Bidgood: Nuttier Than A Fruitcake

James Bidgood is a member of parliament for the Australian Federal Government and over the past couple of days, it has been shown that he grip on reality may be tenous at best.  The first scandal he has been involved in involved him taking a photo of a protester about to set himself on fire [...]

University Inquiry Dismissed: Labelled a Waste of Time

Earlier I had noted about (here and here) a rather odd Australian Senate Inquiry about supposed bias in Australian Universities, which claimed they were part of (for lack of a better term) a conspiracy to further left wing agendas.  That Senate Inquiry has now dismissed itself and stated that the whole things was pretty much [...]

Prop 8: The Musical

Via Pharyngula we have Proposition 8: The Musical.  A star studded cast do a satirical look at the idiotic passing of Proposition 8 a while back, making sure to showcase the utter stupidity of the conservative/religious viewpoint in the process.  Well worth a look and a video I could not help but link to here.
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Romania Drops Evolution

Proving that certain parts of Europe still dwell in pseudo-medieval times (harking back to the days of witch burnings, peasants, dung in the streets and chamber pots), it would seem that Romania has decided to officially ignore pretty much the entire scientific field of Biology by more or less dropping Evolution from it’s official curriculum.