Dover's ID(iot) Policy Struck Down

Intelligent design flunks in Pennsylvania

"Woohoo", I'm thinking to myself. "Yay, sanity and reason triumphs!" But it was in the middle of doing the dance of joy in my head that I had a thought. "Hey, I wonder how long until some Right Wing nutjob bandies about their favorite term for a judge who doesn't rule in their favor, 'Judicial Activist'". In case you're wondering, it didn't take long. And it came from an entirely predictable source.

At the Discovery Institute in Seattle (oh how embarrassing for us locals that it's always brought up that DI, pronounced "duhhhh", is based in Seattle) a high-profile research organization dedicated to giving intelligent design some intelligent substance, there was fury at Jones's identification of their mission with that of Dover's religious fundamentalists. John West, associate director of the institute's Center for Science and Culture said the ruling "makes it clear that [Jones] wants his place in history as the judge who issued a definitive decision about intelligent design. This is an activist judge who has delusions of grandeur."

It seems that nutjobs on the right understand what judges are supposed to do about as well as they understand the definition of a scientific theory.