Sometimes I post about politics, local and national, about creationism (I teach human evolution), about my latest adventures in CRM. I also blog about my family and some of their/our doings. I post about teaching the subfields. I angst about going back for one more degree, and that one not in anthropology. I post about evil land-pirates in this desert (under lock, which LiveJournal allows) and how we’re exceeding the land’s carrying capacity here. Sometimes I rant.

Anyway, it’s all anthropology, in some sense.

Btw, I found your blog via John Hawks’ weblog. Nice job!

I started Freethinker’s Asylum when the state school board “revised” the science standards here in 2005, as an attempt to counter, in some small way, the blatant misuse of science by state officials and the media, whose distillations of research generally bear little resemblance to the actual work.

Without fail, my students are surprised to learn that there is evidence for evolution, and what I love about this field is new evidence crops up all the time (giving us plenty to write about!).

But, looking at the Four Stone Hearth #19 at Sherd Nerd, I found Bad Archaeology (in my sidebar), which reminded me of one of the original intents of my blog: to discuss and counter pseudoscience, specifically pseudo-archaeology.

I think the rational perspective and opinion needs to be available for those searching for information. If all they see when they search for topics like Bosnian Pyramid, Noah’s Ark, and Egyptian pyramids are the mystery-mongers and significance-junkies, then those of us that have the ability to provide the voice of reason and do not are at fault.

That’s one of the things I’ve always enjoyed about your blog. You’re always willing to take on the creationist nonsense when it comes up.