Making more friends and influencing people....

.....are the atheists who apparently attacked (verbally, thankfully) Fred Reed when he dared to suggest that there were some difficulties with the evolutionary hypothesis of abiogenesis. He--agnostic or marginal person of faith as far as I can tell--was treated pretty much as if he were representing Answers in Genesis.

Also in the "it has to be seen to be believed" is this bit from Michelle Malkin on the new "Mayan Math." What's not clearly spelled out, sad to say, is whether the kids are required to remember anything past 2012, and whether human sacrifice (presumably of kids abducted from social studies class next door) is part of the curriculum. Is it simply another justification for a massive building program and higher property taxes to build a pyramid temple at public schools?

Whatever the reality, it seems to be yet another reason to homeschool. One doesn't need to be an ethnomathematician (is there such a thing? Apparently yes!) to realize that maybe, just maybe, there is a reason that this civilization isn't around anymore, and take a hint.