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\nMy sister just hooked me with with the First United Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> whose devoted members believe<\/p>\n

\nthe universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The letter to the Kansas School Board is priceless, and includes a brilliant discussion of the important causal link between the the declining number of pirates and global climate change (see the graph below).<\/p>\n

I had to run to the bathroom part way through the page (a big bottle o’ water’ll do that to ya) and I had this inane grin all the way down the hall, chuckling strangely to myself and frightening new students as I went. Oh, this is so<\/em> good. I’m reduced to incoherent giggling!<\/p>\n

And the best part??? You can buy stuff!!!<\/strong> Mugs with the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Shirts with pirate graph!<\/p>\n

Someday I should create a web presence for the Church of the Wildly Indifferent, which I founded back in high school. But today…I should work on my classes.<\/p>\n

Thanks tons<\/em> to my sister for the great<\/em> pointer! And, unsurprisingly, if I’d been keeping up with pharyngula<\/a> more closely I would have known about this months ago (here<\/a>, there,<\/a> and elsewhere).<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m going to go giggle quietly in the corner for a while…<\/p>\n

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