[The most excellent Atrios pointed to this post and its associated comments, and I thought I'd make a comment I left over there a post over here.]

Dear Person of Faith:

Very nice Flowchart Which Explains It All For You.

(Better to just put a link and boost Wellingtongrey.net's hits than try to reproduce it here since, even if I had RTFM and knew how to do this it would probably be too small to read and everybody would click on the original anyway.)

Consider this your Sunday Science Thread. Comments leaving links to cool Hubble pix, chicken tractors, historical food, historical (VERY historical) globe maps, sustainable energy or other scientifical-related subjects will receive e-lollipops.

Go say hi to these nice people. I met a bunch of them this weekend, and they are taking up the thankless task of taking on the right in the arena of religion. We had a couple of really good roundtables and I expect to hear more, but really- will we fix any of our nation's problems in the long term if we continue to ignore religion? That's our Achilles' Heel on the left, and it's getting past the point of being annoying.

Liz points us to an important reminder that it's not about being stupid, it's about being overworked, underpaid, harrassed by a hostile government, and lied to by a sycophantic media owned by neofeudal multinationals: