I am boggleghasted. flabberboggled.

Is that really my book he's talking about? That's just BANANAS!

I can't believe this is happening to me!

We can!

Oh my god! A blurb from Peter S Beagle!

wow, Allyson. I mean, not that I'm surprised, exactly, because I liked the bits you shared with me, but that is a huge compliment.

How bad is that my first instinct was to mash the "like" button and then realize I don't have one on b.org?

I have been assimilated, damn it.

Great blurb, Allyson!

From PZ Myers:

I knew we were evil, but I didn't know we were that evil

How to get from atheism to the complete extinction of the human race

Allyson - that is amazing! Congratulations!!

That is great, Allyson! Beagle's one of my favorite writers.

Is that really my book he's talking about? That's just BANANAS!

I am JZ's complete lack of surprise.

It's such a great story, truly...ever since we got your ass-kicking revision, I've been looking around dreamily at dusk, watching the eaves and the trees and the undersides of bridges and overpasses, thinking, I wonder if Sam ever visited here. I wonder if that's his family. He should visit! He would like it here! He totally lives in the "real creatures I actually know" portion of my brain, not the fiction portion.

Conservapedia: E=mc2 Is A Liberal Conspiracy

To many conservatives, almost everything is a secret liberal plot: from fluoride in the water to medicare reimbursements for end-of-life planning with your doctor to efforts to teach evolution in schools. But Conservapedia founder and Eagle Forum University instructor Andy Schlafly -- Phyllis Schlafly's son -- has found one more liberal plot: the theory of relativity.

If you're behind on your physics, the Theory of Relativity was Albert Einstein's formulation in the early 20th century that gave rise to the famous theorum that E=mc2, otherwise stated as energy is equal to mass times the square of the speed of light. Why does Andy Schlafly hate the theory of relativity? We're pretty sure it's because he's decided it doesn't square with the Bible.

In the entry, "Counterexamples to Relativity," the authors (including Schlafly) write:

The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.[1]

To what does that reference lead? Why, a note by Schlafly:

See, e.g., historian Paul Johnson's book about the 20th century, and the article written by liberal law professor Laurence Tribe as allegedly assisted by Barack Obama. Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book that outsells New York Times bestsellers by a hundred-fold

In other words, reading a theory about physics is correlated to a decrease in people's interest in reading the Bible, which means that it causes people to stop reading the Bible.

Schlafly also points to the Bible as a reason that Einstein's theory must be wrong:

9. The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54.

Conservapedia defines "action-at-a-distance" as "Action at a distance consists of affecting a distant body instantaneously. At the atom level, this is known as "non-locality." In non-confusing terms, that indicates the ability to cause something to happen instantaneously in another location (i.e., faster than the speed of light). Since Jesus could, reportedly, do this, thus Einstein is wrong. Schlafly's evidence is John 4:46-54, in which Jesus reportedly cured someone's son just by saying it had happened.