Ben Stein's Gone

In an attempt to put up a conservative of interest, I put up a link to Ben Stein's pages. I've removed it.

My trouble stems from an interview on a Christian TV network that covered, in part, the so-called movie Expelled. (Go to April 21 and find Ben.) I was going to let him get away with that one before I heard about the interview. At one point in the interview, Ben Stein says

When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [a scientist interviewed in the "movie"], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed. ... Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.

This isn't about politics, it's about a complete lack of connection to reality. Minimally, I expect everyone but politicians to have one. If he were kidding about this, I would be amused... as long as everyone knew it was a joke. I can't see how this is a joke, and my sense of humor is as obtuse as the come.

I'll put Ben back up as a person of interest when he runs for a public office that deserves this crap.

A Couple of Things for Contributers

Do any of you have any updates for the people of interest list on the sidebar? Post a comment if you have a name or a link you'd like to see there.

Speaking of links... they aren't hard. In the main post writing page, you can just highlight the text, click on the link button, put the URL in the pop-up box (beware of doubling the http://), and you get a link in your post. Comments don't have that option, so you need to put in the links by hand. I can edit posts to fix your bad links, but not your comments, so get 'em right.

Also, do any of you have an e-mail account that can have a filter to forward copies of selected incoming e-mails? Right now I don't have any of us getting comments in their e-mail because Blogger allows only one e-mail address per blog. I could just go buy a domain name and probably get something that way, but I'm too cheap and lazy to do that.