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: Ping (zestyping) wrote,
2006-07-20 16:46:00

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2006-07-20 16:46:00

Hovind indicted.

Some of you may remember various episodes in which i expended big chunks of time and energy arguing with Kent Hovind, a young-earth creationist who makes his living travelling around the country giving lectures on how the Earth is about 6000 years old, presenting lots of misleading arguments and evidence, and somehow linking this all to the evils of abortion and homosexuality. He's lectured at both Waterloo and Berkeley and i've watched him convince quite a few young people that they should rip all the pages about evolution out of their science textbooks.

Well, he's been indicted on 58 charges of tax fraud.

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Hovind indicted.

Four years of consumption offsets and going strong.

Aaron Swartz.

My Google+ profile has just been suspended for having an unusual name.

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