oneirophrenia | Way to go, dipshit.

U of Kansas cancels "creationism as myth" class because guy teaching it is a big fat asshole.

Basically what happened is this: "[Professor Paul] Mirecki recently sent an e-mail to members of a student organization in which he referred to religious conservatives as 'fundies' and said a course depicting intelligent design as mythology would be a 'nice slap in their big fat face.'"

The instructor has officially appologized, but the university has cancelled the class nonetheless.

Now, we all know about my rabid hatred of fundamentalist Christians. Substitute "fucking idiots" for "fundies" and "prove to the world what useless idiots they are" for "a nice slap in their big fat face" and you have a typical Pegritz utterance concerning those religious retards. However. I am not an instructor of a class specifically dealing with religious issues, nor am I the chairman of a religious-studies department. Naturally, everyone is allowed to say whatever they want about whomever they want--I do it every goddamned day and apologize for NONE of it--but...there is a thing called basic social responsibility which predicates that if you are in a position of instruction it's just not politic to publicly launch insulting diatribes at people in your department. That would be similar to me walking into my English Department and announcing that everyone who is involved in Shakespeare studies is a complete time-wasting dumbass. Sure, that's exactly what I believe (sorry, but Shakespeare has been written about nearly twenty million times to often), but what would be the point of me opening my big mouth there and pissing everyone off? Yeah, there's always the chance that one of them might stumble on this journal somehow, but my acerbic utterances concerning Shakespeare here have nothing to do with my colleague's jobs, our department, or the students who may or may not want to take classes offered by our department.

So I say to you, Paul Mirecki: Way to shoot yourself in the foot, idiot.