Cheers with beers.

Ann Coulter use the word “faggot” when referring to John Edwards. That would be bad enough I guess, but we expect that from her. It was the reaction in the crowd that really gets me. Cheering and whooping at the…

Of course, the most telling thing about the entire situation is that while many of the articles are spoofs, just as many are absolutely genuine, and most of the world doesn’t seem to be able to tell them apart….

Yeah, and that was my point in my last paragraph… if you can’t tell a spoof from the real thing, it should tell you something about the real thing .

Some articles are spoofs, written by malicious liberals attracted to the site through science blogs or,now that word is spreading, blogs like this.
Because of the extraordinary level of spoofing, vandalism, and general mocking, the site has shut down registration for new users for the forseeable future.

As for the entry on the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus – this article was posted by yours truly in an attempt to increase the level of scientific discourse on the site. Far too many of the articles are poorly sourced one or two sentence descriptions cribbed from creationist homeschool textbooks. The octopus entry is an attempt to rectify that situation.

Of course, the most telling thing about the entire situation is that while many of the articles are spoofs, just as many are absolutely genuine, and most of the world doesn’t seem to be able to tell them apart….

Ken L

My criticism would be for Schlafly for then teaching this stuff and for making/encouraging his student’s to parrot this in such a forum.

I’ll have to look closer at some of those posts and see which are from him, students, etc.. but it will be hard to tell. The site is down.

As a parent, I feel a bit squeamish — many of the posts were written by Schlafly’s students, participants in Eagle Forum’s online “enrichment” for homeschoolers. The squeam is about ridiculing kids who are still in high school.