Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Man, it sure would have saved me a lot of ranting if I had known about ScienceBlogs, CultureWars and Brayton a few years back.

For sheer imbecility, it's gonna be awfully hard to top this column by Dennis Prager objecting to Muslim congressman Keith Ellison swearing his oath of office on the Quran. He manages to bring both the stupid and the crazy right from the first paragraphs:

Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran.

He should not be allowed to do so -- not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization.

I'll take naked assertions for $1000, Alex. How exactly will this undermine American civilization, and what does that phrase even mean? He doesn't say, of course. What, you expect reasoned arguments? Silly man. This is a purely emotional polemical screed.

A lot of exactly what I feel compelled to rant about Brayton has already covered, in a more articulate, yet still deservingly mocking, manner.