I used to think that Al Gore was the biggest hypocrite in the world as he flew around in his private jet, and the inconvenient truth that he bought an $8.875 million dollar oceanfront property, after scaring the sellers into believing the oceans are about to rise and drown everyone on the coast. For Al to really believe his own nonsense, he'd have to understand geography about as well as Congressman Hank Johnson, who once thought the addition of eight thousand Marines to the island of Guam might cause the entire island to capsize. Surely Al didn't think the oceans would rise twenty feet on the east coast while sea level remained the same on the west coast.  He couldn't possibly be that dumb, could he? Remember, for eight years Gore was only a heartbeat (or impeachment conviction) away from becoming the 43rd President of the United States. Personally, I think famous hoaxer P. T. Barnum would have been proud to call Al his son, I think, because it would be absolutely stupid to pay millions of dollars for oceanfront property if you really think it will be underwater in a few years. Nobody that stupid has millions of dollars for very long. But I think Al has nothing on Hector Avalos, an atheist college professor with some really big cohones. Avalos is (allegedly) a professor of religious studies at Iowa State University. The need for qualifying his professional title should become quite obvious, by the very next sentence. Almost eight years ago Hector Avalos wrote a book called The End of Religious Studies. Yet Avalos continues to draw a hefty paycheck … [Read more...]