Full Reverse!

I was going to talk about a post-modern dream-sequence in Mary, Mungo and Midge. But that will have to wait because I have arrived here angry at the implications of this article about the insipid spread of anti-evolution and anti-science in US classrooms. The Simon Singh book has been talking about the anti big-bang ideology of the Soviet Union triggered by the idea of the Big Bang implying a Creation and therefore a Creator. It seems that religious ideologues are trying the opposite tack against evolution and indeed the whole of science. Already we have seen extreme feminists questioning the idea of serious and controlled scientific study because the idea was invented by White, Middle-class men. I can only hope that the outrage I feel is a false response to a small problem magnified by the sensationalistic media. I know that the world is run with few exceptions by stupid people who cannot hack it actually working or producing something but at least their stupidity up to now has been excused by the fact that they can't really help it. It seems now that they are actively promoting their stupidity and encouraging others to be stupid as well. I am right, you are wrong and no amount of supposed evidence from the Bible which is after all not much more than a promotional marketing tool for so many zealots, will make me think otherwise. When the west is in the grip of a Government Newspeak campaign to ban the teaching of science, I will be leading the Samizdat with the resistance at my side. Tick your boxes all you like. Creationism and intelligent design is a big lie. When the world is so amazing without any need for all of this noise, why to we continue to require the mysticism and fuzziness that so many people need to survive.

On the same theme, graphology seems to have gone the way of astrology.

The British Psychological Society ranks graphology alongside astrology - giving them both "zero validity" in determining someone's character. Dr Rowan Bayne, a psychologist who tested top graphologists against their claims, says the practice is "useless... absolutely hopeless".

Maybe Mary, Mungo and Midge at lunchtime.