One of the side effects of using Flipboard on my iPad is that I have been exposed to Redstate.com, the site run by Erick Erickson, a CNN commentator most famous for calling Supreme Court Justice David Souter a "goat fucking child molester" because he unexpectedly voted to affirm Roe v. Wade.
Redstate.com includes a daily diary entitled "Daily Links," and yesterday's began,
"Today is April 26th. On this date in 1514, Copernicus recorded his first observations of Saturn. He concluded that God must have liked it, because “he puteth a ring upon it.” "
This quote assumes its readers are ignorant of both science and history.
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