Submitted to a Candid World

Three cheers to Dana Hunter for hosting the second carnival - here. Topics include the ease of ignorance, the hypocrisy of those who will call you an elitist, and how elitists can and should change the world for the better. And we’re on it again too! Read and be merry.

Thanks to Dana Hunter of En Tequila Es Verdad for dreaming up, soliciting entries for, hosting, and preparing the first Carnival of the Elitist Bastards, wherein our little site is, again, featured! Among my favorites - other than my own entry, hmm hmm - is an attack on anti-elitism itself, a veritable plague on our democracy, and a perversion of the myth of the humble beginnings. I look forward to future carnivals, and I promise I’ll have a badge for it soon, too.

In other news, I’m just now feeling better, and I hope to be posting more regularly again soon. I had the chance to visit the Met today - although the mere act of walking there made me dizzy (sad, huh?) - and I snapped a shot of this “wall text,” describing a piece made by one of the art world’s bad boys, Damien Hirst.

I’ll let you all decide whether you want to see the actual piece: click here if you’re up to it. But I warn you, the piece is exactly what the text describes. A discussion on art and elitism tomorrow. I’m already gunning for inclusion in Carnival #2!

Our humble site is featured in Tangled Bank #105, hosted at the Beagle Project, for our entry “How Ben Stein Destroyed Intelligent Design.”  For those of you who don’t know, Tangled Bank publishes a regular collection of blog posts on biology and science.  It’s administered by PZ Myers of Pharyngula: snark and knowledge are always guaranteed.

Also, good news everyone! I hope you’ve got a Starbucks venti iced chai latte handy (my favorite!), because we’ll be working on the first post of “Carnival of the Elitist Bastards,” hosted by Dana Hunter of En Tequila Es Verdad.

And thanks to PalMD of Denialism Blog, for a little positive press. Pal, you’re a gentleman and a scholar.

I promise a return to substantive entries tomorrow. Please forgive this brief hiatus.