Thanks all of you for listening to Hour of the Wolf, and for your kind words here and via e-mail.

As I said to several of you, it’s deceptively hard to do live radio, since you only get one chance to do it right. Jim Freund was a gracious host, however, and I had a few kindly disposed listeners. Thanks.

If you want to hear these radio appearances done right, you should check out Bill Shunn’s () archive of his spots on Hour of the Wolf, on his website.

has very kindly recorded my appearance on the show, and when I figure out whether and how I’ll make them available on the web, I’ll post the information here.

Hot Air

It’s a black day for radio. On Saturday, June 18, I will be appearing on Hour of the Wolf, hosted by Jim Freund, on WBAI 99.5 FM, from 5 to 7 a.m.

Hour of the Wolf’s format will be music, conversation with Jim about speculative fiction, and a reading by the show’s guest (that would be me).

If you’re not in WBAI’s broadcast range (the New York metropolitan area), you can listen to the show on the web.

Feline Agonistes

reviews Spamalot in her blog.

Happy Easter (Island)

Mother Goose & Grimm
By Mike Peters

Stupid is the New Smart*

A hundred years from now, scholars will refer to this as The Benightenment, a period in American History during which fundamentalist Christians led a headlong retreat from reason, empiricism and intellectual integrity. As The New York Times reports today in A New Test for Imax: The Bible vs. the Volcano:

The fight over evolution has reached the big, big screen.

Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject — or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth — fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures.

No editorial gloss I could put on this would be sufficient to express my outrage and sadness about the triumph of the small, fearful and stupid of this country over the values of The Enlightenment. We are (ostensibly) fighting fundamentalism abroad while embracing here at home.

Carol Murray, director of marketing for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, said the museum decided not to offer the movie [Volcanoes] after showing it to a sample audience, a practice often followed by managers of Imax theaters. Ms. Murray said 137 people participated in the survey, and while some thought it was well done, “some people said it was blasphemous.”

Blasphemous. That’s now the standard for science in the United States. It’s the New American Century in one word: a courageous leap backward into ignorance and superstition.

I’d say the last thinking adult to leave the country should turn out the lights, but they’ve already been extinguished.

* I wish I could take credit for this title, but it’s shamelessly stolen from ‘s brilliant song of the same name. You can find some of his other songs available for free download at his Music Page.