You’ll notice, of course, that in my pro-P.Z. letter to President Bruininks, I pretty much avoided the core issue. To a large extent, it’s irrelevant: P.Z. enjoys free-speech rights, particularly on a private blog that’s unaffiliated with the university, and anyway, he has tenure. Any organized campaign to pressure the university to take action [...]

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So there’s a little kerfluffle over at Pharyngula about P.Z. making fun of some
crackers. Basically, Bill Donahue and the Catholic League got their dander up about some kid absconding from Mass with a Eucharist wafer (which is totally the body of the Lord Jesus, even though it seems to every empirical investigator to be [...]

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There is another blog war going on out there, folks, and it’s not all in fun like our little music feud.
My favorite blog, BoingBoing, just posted a notice about some drama going on. Violet Blue, a prominent sex blogger and columnist for SFGate, apparently is up in arms about BoingBoing’s removal of content about her. [...]

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