Expelled: The dumbassitude.

If you haven't been paying attention lately, you might have missed neo-con twit Ben Stein's latest project: "Expelled", a glorious hommage to wingnut conspiracy theories in which Stein "documents" (and I use the word "documents" in its loosest and most dishonest sense) the vast liberal conspiracy against Intelligent Design.

The best part of that entire farce is where Stein invites alleged discrimination cases to write in and tell their story of sad-making persecution and, really, you have to think that the filmmakers are starting to regret this, because a more pathetic collection of airheads, wanks and losers, you're unlikely ever to find.

It's almost impossible to do any of those submissions justice in terms of their sheer crackpottedness. Or immaturity. Or howling irrelevance. Yes, one can only imagine the filmmakers poring laboriously over all of those submissions, thinking, "Jesus, you have got to be kidding me. These people are all nuts!"

My only fear is that, in a fit of lucidity, those movie makers might decide to disappear that entire set of pages. That would be unfortunate since, at the moment, I can't think of a better place to go for evidence of the sheer idiocy of ID. I'm just grateful they did all the work for me.