Dick in the Dock. Part 1

Last Friday our old friend Richard Dawkins was on the Alan Colmes show, and of course it featured the usual drivel. One caller did get the better of Prof. Dawkins, actually getting him to curse. Good o'l Alan caught it before it polluted the otherwise pristine airways of New York. But I must say I am rather disappointed in Prof. Dawkins. I mean really, when we fly a professor all the way from Oxford, we do not expect to hear curse words we can here from any NJ Gangster, we expect to hear rubbish! And when Prof. Dawkins is talking that is usually precisely what we hear. He did make a few snide attempts at irony, but I am afraid it went over most Americans' heads. I am afraid the American callers did not do much better than the British ones, but at least they were not much worse. However, the American call screeners were obviously not as well trained; they actually let some calls that bordered on legitimate questions through. Of course without proper follow-up even the best question is worthless; Dawkins will simply spew his mindless drivel, in response, unchallenged. As of course he did. He also kept making vague references to his book (the one with “God” in the title). He seems to think that the answers to all the questions he fails so miserably with on the air are somehow in there. Well, I doubt it, but to be fair I suppose I should checkout a copy from my local library and give it a look-see. Perhaps a full report will be forthcoming.