Creationists pushed back in Georgia

The creationist promotion of ignorance has had a setback in Georgia, where the Supreme court has decreed that their anti-evolution stickers infringe the laws on religion in schools.There is a Guardian report here.

While this is obviously good news, I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be best to let the nutters take over America and let the whole place disappear up their own fundamentalism. On the other hand, might turn out like the Taliban with nukes.

Reading List : Toast by Charles Stross

A collection of early short stories. Pretty decent, but I suspect substantially different from his novels. There is a Lovecraft homage which is a cold war leading on to war, but the weapons are Lovecraftian monsters rather than nukes. The best one is 1984 with computers.