Boyd

Recently I've stumbled upon folks who believe man and dinosaurs co-existed.

Wieland:

The Bible’s account of the true history of the world makes it clear that no fossil can be more than a few thousand years old. Dinosaur bones give evidence strongly consistent with this.

These same folks go to great lengths to build web pages and publish papers and hold conferences to make it seem like they know what they're talking about. Unfortunately it appears that Kansas is not as isolated as one might have hoped.

Update: Texas arrives right on queue.

Sullum:

Under current law the estimated gap between the benefits retirees have been promised and revenue to fund them is $53 trillion, of which $34 trillion is due to Medicare.

Over/under on the number of Casey Alridge pipe-laying jokes in the next seven days? Six million.

Hitchens:

...I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

Saletan:

It may be true that today's God a human creation. But so, in a way, is today's evolution.

We're always making the mistake that the way it is is the way it's supposed to be.

I cannot even begin to describe the perfection that is this bourbon this year.

Romney:

I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers – I will be true to them and to my beliefs.

Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy. If they are right, so be it. But I think they underestimate the American people. Americans do not respect believers of convenience.

But what could be more convenient than having the same beliefs as one's 'fathers?'

Hitchens:

According to the admittedly very contradictory scriptures of the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth warned his disciples and followers that they should expect to be ridiculed and mocked for their faith. After all, how likely was it that God had decided to reveal himself to only a few illiterate peasants in a barbarous backwater? Those who elected to believe this stuff were quite rightly told to expect a hard time, and the expression "fool for God" or "fool for Christ" has been with us ever since. That concept has some dignity and nobility. Entirely lacking in dignity or nobility (or average integrity) is the well-heeled son of a gold-plated church who wants to assume the pained look of martyrdom only when he is asked if he actually believes what he says. A long time ago, Romney took the decision to be a fool for Joseph Smith, a convicted fraud and serial practitioner of statutory rape who at times made war on the United States and whose cult has been made to amend itself several times in order to be considered American at all. We do not require pious lectures on the American founding from such a man...