Stove’s argument is that Darwinist theories which say all evolved organisms try to selfishly reproduce themselves as much as possible are clearly false, because we’re evolved organisms and we don’t do that.

Oh, well, it’s not like I’ve ever actually watched it. It’s too obvious a ripoff of “Doctor Who.”

Hm, revisiting this post yet again, it really does seem strange to encounter such a graphical version of “Neener, neener!” Yes, it’s Horowitz as usual, but it required collaboration by the publisher. I await their superficially similar counterpoints to other liberal texts, such as a photo of a seated, smirking Mr. Limbaugh on the cover of No Hope for You, You Audacious Negro!

I thought so too, which is why I shaved the beard last December, long before such things became fashionable at CT. But, alas, no luck. So I’m now negotiating with UNC Press to plaster the front cover with the word “bestseller.” Thanks for the suggestion, Daniel!

who spends most of the episode ridiculing his conservative students, then suddenly in the last five minutes correctly identifies a speech act.

That’s not quite right, mds. The last five minutes of class consists of me promising to explain the difference between perlocutionary and illocutionary speech acts someday, and trying to persuade my students that I’m not just making this shit up.

Are we talking ice hockey in the sense of “What the hell happened to the Flyers?” or “Jacques LeFramboise has been tearing up the QMJHL. I suspect he’s the frontrunner for first pick in the 2010 draft.”?

This is a trick question, right? Because the answer to (a) is that we all slow down as we age, and some of us find ourselves incapable of playing at home, too; and (b) there is no Jacques LeFramboise. The kid who’s tearing up the QMJHL is Thomas Beauregard, with 71 goals (the next guy after him has 54).

OK, that was funnier than the Mary Rosh/John Lott sock puppet post. But I thought only the pudenda got yellowed?

Yes. It’s why he could never bear to eat braunschweiger.

Though I do admire a man who takes the bold anti-Darwinian stand that natural selection has less effect on a self-aware, tool-using species. Because those deranged Darwinists were repeatedly asserting that humans would evolve tentacles any day now.

Oh, and I am ashamed to admit that I too think Horowitz’s cover is better, except for how the chalk writing floats in space, like, uh, ginormous floating chalk writing.

A bit of a shave might help,

Apparently, Mr. Stout, you are unaware of the series “Bérubé, Ph.D.” wherein our guest host plays a brilliant-but-sarcastic unshaven professor of Dangeral Studies, who spends most of the episode ridiculing his conservative students, then suddenly in the last five minutes correctly identifies a speech act.

What the heck does he call 6.5 billion people then? Chopped liver?