That horrific piece of propagandist trash by Ben Stein disguised as a hard hitting documentary that makes Michael Moore look like Jacque Cousteau came out today, and the official reviews are finally coming in...

• Beliefnet.com
• TV Guide
• Seattle Times
• Salt Lake Tribune
• Rotten Tomatoes

You know that flatulence like sound that balloons make when you let the air out and the last bit finally escapes before it goes completely limp? That's the sound that Ben Stein's career is making right now. But if you still feel compelled to go see this garbage, here's one more site about --> Expelled <-- that you should read first (created by the National Center for Science Education), and be sure that you offset your price of admission with a truth ticket or two... or three... dozen.

It would seem as if the idle time sitting in airports and on planes has a positive influence on PZ's creative juice glands... A little humor and levity is much appreciated when it's so easy to get pissed off at the crackpots endlessly trying to redefine Science so that it includes their untestable, evidence-free, intellectually dishonest mumbo-jumbo that goes by the name Creationism, errr, no... Intelligent Design... errr... no,... what are the Liars for Jesus calling it this week? Oh, yes... "Academic Freedom."

Sigh... and here's some more fun on that topic. Expelled? No... I think flunked is more like it.

This is an excellent talk from about a year ago by Neil deGrasse Tyson on Intelligent Design's appearances throughout history and it's effects on science. It's a little slow to start but very entertaining once he gets going and a much better spent half hour than watching another one of those junk "reality" shows on TV.