I know, I know what you’re thinking…

Trading Spaces is still on the air?

Apparently so, although I couldn’t have told you so before reading about Paige Davis rejoining the cast of the show, after it went to a no-host format in 2005.

I lost interest in the show long ago, especially after realizing that a house full of dogs, cats, and kids is not conducive to having a clean, well-decorated home.

I’m still interested in Paige Davis’ bottom, I suppose.

Maybe it should get its very own segment of the show.

That’s right, that’s me, writing about the important stories of the day.

…but, in the meantime, people who think Batman is one bad dude are debating whether or not they can vote for someone who thinks Superman is tops.

Recent polls show Mitt Romney leading in the race for the Iowa and New Hampshire Republican primaries, but the presidential candidate may face a bigger test in South Carolina, where his Mormon faith will come face-to-face with the GOP’s powerful evangelical base.

OK, so it’s not Batman and Superman, but it is a bunch of people arguing over which silly fiction they prefer.

What’s most amusing, or sad, to me is that none of these people would ever vote for me, an atheist. However, I’m probably more likely to defend religious freedom for all than someone who really thinks the rest of you are going to Hell.

But given that you choose to argue over fiction rather than fact, I can’t say I am surprised.

John Scalzi, author of several books, including Old Man’s War (which I thought was great), paid a visit to the Creation Museum.

Here’s how he starts his recap of what he saw:

Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit.

Ouch.

I’m guessing he didn’t leave the museum a believer.

Wow, after watching the PBS NOVA recap of the Kitzmiller vs Dover case, involving evolution against intelligent design, I have only the following to say:

Michael Behe: as we’ve known for a long time, you are either very dumb or an incompetent fraud. Piss off, ok?

Creationists: we laugh at you. Lots.

Intelligent design supporters: most likely you are simply ignorant of the science behind evolution, but failing that you are either willfully ignorant of such, or just plain stupid, stupid, stupid. Especially since you’re really nothing but a creationist. Yes, we’re laughing at you.

Lots. And lots.

Ken Miller. while a valiant defender of evolution, you really need to let go of this whole “god of the gaps” belief that keeps you among the faithful. You’re just going to be continually disappointed. Come on over, the water is fine and the grass is greener.

Tammy Kitzmiller, and all the other plaintiffs in this trial, you are to be commended for your willingness to stand up to the idiocy of intelligent design, the violent threats from so many “good Christians” around you, and the general scorn of your community in defense of the pursuit of truth. I only hope that I would demonstrate the same will confronted with the same situation.

Judge John Jones, despite being put in place by religious conservatives, you were open-minded enough to fairly evaluate the information before you, and to see intelligent design for the intellectual dishonesty that it is. After dealing with so much right-wing hackery in the last three to four years, you are a small miracle in the world (amen!).

In closing, darn fine documentary, from which we all could learn a thing or two (although, really, intelligent design proponents and creationists could learn significantly more, like, say, a million billion things)*.

Note: PZ Myers was liveblogging the show. With Diet Coke. Which is nothing at all like beer. Which means I’m cooler.

Note 2: Too funny - in the Discovery Institute’s “Woe is Us Because We’re Dishonest Cretins” response to the show, they have the nerve to say the following about why their superstars, such as Michael “Flagellate This” Behe, didn’t make an official appearance:

Past experience with the media teaches that intelligent design is often misrepresented, especially through the editing process. Quotes taken out of context are used to mislead the viewer, often with effective results.

Creationists upset about quote mining? That’s cute!

* But they won’t.

…or at least that is what is suggested by this ridiculous waste of time and tax dollars.

ATLANTA (AP) - What to do when the rain won’t come? If you’re Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, you pray.

The governor will host a prayer service next week to ask for relief from the drought gripping the Southeast.

The good people of Alabama tried something similar a few months back, but God turned away from the cries of the Heart of Dixie. Probably because some of them want to overturn that dildo law. He’s an angry god, you know, with a general stance against anything that might feel pleasurable or be fun.

Like, say, a dildo.

Not that I know from experience, but to hear the womenfolk tell it… we men are almost an afterthought.

“The only solution is rain, and the only place we get that is from a higher power,” Perdue spokesman Bert Brantley said on Wednesday.

And we can’t have babies without storks.

I see that science education in Georgia is a stunning success!

Pssst, Bert Brantley, you might wish to peruse this site at your earliest convenience, because - as it stands - you are very ignorant.

Or stupid.

Both maybe.

It’s disheartening to see that, despite all of our technological wonders, our ever-increasing knowledge of how the world around us works, so many of us are still just a step away from throwing virgins into volcanoes to ensure the well-being of the people.

In this entire Hillary Clinton, did-she-or-didn’t-she tipping non-drama, the only person to really show a bit of sense is the waitress in question, Anita Esterday.

Ms. Esterday said she did not understand what all the commotion was about.

“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”

Maybe she should be a write-in.

Cretin.

Seeking to reprise Charlize Theron’s role in the sequel to the movie “Monster,” it’s …uh… Britney Spears?

Man, who the hell shunted her off of the superstardom superhighway and onto the service road of trailer park delights?

…or senile old men.

In the last year or so, Christian apologists have been trumpeting the conversion of philosopher Antony Flew from atheism to, while not Christianity, at least some form of general theism. There was much speculation from the atheist side that Flew was becoming a victim of his years.

And so it seems such is the case.

It’s sad that Flew’s mind is giving way to the ravages of aging, and sadder still that some Christians think it is acceptable (and, worse, meaningful) to capitalize on it.

That’s right, NaNoWriMo 2007 is well underway, with the current crop of writer wanna-bes cranking out over six million words in the first two days. Sure, only 23 of those words are actually publishable, but you have to start somewhere.

As for me, I’m off to a late start. Today, I tried eating something substantial for the first time in nearly a week.

Big mistake, that.

So, one more night of being under the weather and hopefully daddy gonna be all right.