# Ann Coulter is going to blow the lid off evolution... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 29, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712 "2006-04-29T05:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/61 "2006-05-01T13:43:44Z")
> [@JustAnotherGeek](#): > > e.g. This year, I am a grad student (taking the year off from teaching to finish my degree. When I drove out to help SIL and brother and 6 m/o nephew move in to their new gi-friggin-normous house in Joisy, I was commenting on how hard it is for me to find a shirt that fits. (If they fit my trunk, the arms are too short and the neck too small; if they fit my arms and neck, they’re a tent.) Her response: “Just get them tailored.” She coulda bin Marie Antoinette. I’ve got the same problem - I call them my orangutan arms. But you might be able to find, for roughly the same price, shirts that are labeled “athletic fit”. They have sleeves slightly longer as compared to the neck size as normal shirts. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/62 "2006-05-01T22:35:52Z")
Folks, every day Ann Coulter walks and draws breath on this planet is an indictment of evolution. She’s blowing the lid off it was we speak. But I’d still hit it. I’d flip her over and pound her balloon knot. You know, if she was into it. I’d tell her I was white, Christian and Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/63 "2006-05-02T22:59:33Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > I I have a lot of pretty well educated friends, but I’m hard pressed to think of any who could win a debate against one of the ID proponents. > > ? I once knew a UCLA graduate in Computer Science who believed Genesis literally. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/64 "2006-05-03T19:40:05Z")
Man, yeah. Good thing that mainstream serious movement conservatives aren’t at all like her: [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596980044/102-4933799-3694528?v=glance&n=283155](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596980044/102-4933799-3694528?v=glance&n=283155) ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Sweet\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/65 "2006-05-03T19:51:25Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Am I the only one who wishes that Universe would ban Coulter for being a troll? Nope. But, she gets _ratings_. Money talks, journalistic integrity walks. :smack: As for her new “Critique” of evolution, I do have to say that this is the first time I have ever seen Coulter actually promoting a conservative position (as dumb as it is). Until now, it’s just been gallon after gallon of bile and name calling towards the left. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/66 "2006-05-03T22:33:51Z")
> [@Sweet Mercury](#): > > Nope. But, she gets _ratings_. Money talks, journalistic integrity walks. :smack: And _this_, more than anything else, is what worries me about Ann Coulter and her ilk. Look, we’ve got raving loonies everywhere. I just finished a post about Squeaky Fromme’s long lost kid sister, Shirley Phelps-Roper, but those WBC loons are _outcasts_. No one likes them or takes them seriously. When someone like Ann Coulter is on the bestseller list and running the talk circuit among ostensibly educated people, something is wrong. I might be waxing nostalgiac about the 80’s here, but 20 years ago, wouldn’t one expect to find Ann Coulter’s screeds listed in the back of **Guns And Psychos** magazine? In one of those tiny little ads on the next to the last page that you’d need a magnifying glass to make out (assuming, of course, that you had the necessary 5th grade reading level)? It’s not that Ann Coulter is raving. It’s that her ravings are a hell of a lot more popular than they ought to be. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Sweet\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/67 "2006-05-04T03:43:22Z")
> [@Linty Fresh](#): > > And _this_, more than anything else, is what worries me about Ann Coulter and her ilk. Look, we’ve got raving loonies everywhere. I just finished a post about Squeaky Fromme’s long lost kid sister, Shirley Phelps-Roper, but those WBC loons are _outcasts_. No one likes them or takes them seriously. When someone like Ann Coulter is on the bestseller list and running the talk circuit among ostensibly educated people, something is wrong. > > I might be waxing nostalgiac about the 80’s here, but 20 years ago, wouldn’t one expect to find Ann Coulter’s screeds listed in the back of **Guns And Psychos** magazine? In one of those tiny little ads on the next to the last page that you’d need a magnifying glass to make out (assuming, of course, that you had the necessary 5th grade reading level)? > > It’s not that Ann Coulter is raving. It’s that her ravings are a hell of a lot more popular than they ought to be. The journalism “industry” is almost like the video game industry. They need to keep being more and more extreme to keep people’s attention. People don’t want news, they excitement! Adventure! Glorified gossip! If and when it all goes to shit in the end, we will have no one to blame but ourselves… (Oh, and 20 years ago I was learning to read and geting excited about starting kindergarden in the fall 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/68 "2006-05-04T07:58:03Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > Man, yeah. Good thing that mainstream serious movement conservatives aren’t at all like her: > > [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596980044/102-4933799-3694528?v=glance&n=283155](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596980044/102-4933799-3694528?v=glance&n=283155) Did you read the Red State Baron’s review? comedy gold ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/69 "2006-05-04T12:49:53Z")
A link, kind sir? ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/70 "2006-05-04T14:20:44Z")
**Apos** , “Red State Baron” wrote a review on Amazon, and, I agree, it’s quite good. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Sweet\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/71 "2006-05-04T21:14:21Z")
> [@Linty Fresh](#): > > It’s not that Ann Coulter is raving. It’s that her ravings are a hell of a lot more popular than they ought to be. Just to add onto this: the thing is, the idea of sensationalism is nothing new. Back in the 80s supermarket tabloids were a prevailing form of media, correct? The fact that soccer-moms are more engaged by glorified gossip and overhyped, self important celebrities is nothing new. The fact that young men are drawn towards professional sports rivalries and glorified soap opera proffesional wrestling is also not new. What is new, and disturbing, is that the new venue for this buffoonery is the once respectable mainstream media, and the new scope is not celebrities or sports, but Federal leval politics. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/72 "2006-05-04T21:19:34Z")
> [@Sweet Mercury](#): > > What is new, and disturbing, is that the new venue for this buffoonery is the once respectable mainstream media, and the new scope is not celebrities or sports, but Federal leval politics. Elect a Bush; things get hairy. ~d & r~ ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/73 "2006-05-04T22:13:10Z")
> [@Little Bird](#): > > I’d like her to blow the lid off me! Ha! Am I right guys! Yeah! Thanks, **Bird**. Now I have the song from **The Crying Game** running through my head. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Sweet\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/74 "2006-05-04T22:16:53Z")
Zinger accomplished. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/75 "2006-05-05T02:09:39Z")
The combination of “Ann Coulter” and “blow the lid off” yields only one logical image: …an exploding toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/76 "2006-05-05T02:58:52Z")
> [@infamousmom](#): > > …an exploding toilet. Oh yeah, **I** remember 8th grade! Who would have thought that an ordinary ziplock bag and a cherry bomb could bring so much joy into a young innocent’s life. It’s the Ann Coulter’s of the world who want to outlaw that sort of thing, right along with gay marriage. Well, Ann, keep your anti-explosive nazi repression off of _my_ indoor plumbing!![sup]\*[/sup] \*OK, the Pennsylvania public school system’s indoor plumbing, but you get the idea . . . ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712/77 "2006-05-05T04:04:52Z")
**Linty**! You did that too? Excellent! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-coulter-is-going-to-blow-the-lid-off-evolution/354712.md?page=3)