Lord, Make My Enemies Ridiculous

Voltaire must be having a great belly laugh in his grave right now...

With the (epic!) saga of PZ being thrown out of a screening of Expelled! now making both the NY Times and Salon, Mathis and the rest of the Expelled! brethren ought to start thinking long and hard about their future careers.

It's not as if their movie is poorly made, or that anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together has had some pretty cruel things to say about it, or that the main villains in the movie sound decidedly un-villain like:



But, I'd say that the worst thing about this whole fracas is that the Expelled! people are playing it as a win for them, which, as any PR monkey will tell you, is a terrible idea at this time. The best thing they ought to have done was shut the hell up and hope that the internet noise machine would have ignored this.

Oh well, too late, and now Voltaire's laughing.