"Teach the Controversy" shirts

But you knew that already. A lovely friend of mine posted these in her blog, though I've seen them elsewhere as well.

Pat Robertson has claimed that the Haitians made a pact with the devil to free themselves from French rule.

A response letter was sent on 1/15/2010 to the editor of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune:

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that ( Read more... )

Apparently, there's a service for that.

So, remember a while back when I proudly posted that the boy's science fair project had won first place in his grade, and he and the other first place winners from his school would be competing at the regional science fair this February ( Read more... )

This looks interesting. Yay guerrilla science education!

This has been around for ages, but it still amuses me.

PETA (an organization my opinion of which is best summed up by Penn and Teller), recently sent a letter to the founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. You can see the CNN article here.

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This essay is somewhat dated, but still worth reading.

If you're wanted in several different jurisdictions for a variety of crimes, including kidnapping, rape, stalking, passing bad checks, and an assault on a public officials.... maybe you shouldn't hog the limelight and do stuff that will get your picture in the international press.

This page covers the correspondence between an evolutionary biologist and a creation "scientist". It's long, but it amused me (then again, I'm often amused by odd things).