Steve Harvey has long been notorious for saying stupid things.

Emmy Award-winning TV host and best-selling author Steve Harvey advises women not to date atheists because you don’t know where the man’s “moral barometer” is, and says that as far as someone not believing in God, “well, then, to me you’re an idiot.”

Harvey, who also hosts a radio show and started his career in stand-up comedy, went on to say that Darwinism is essentially nonsense because he doesn’t think the universe “spun out of a gastrous ball and then all of a sudden we were evolved from monkeys.” If that were true, he says, then “why we still got monkeys?”

Yep, that’s his argument, the dumbest argument against evolution ever…although at least he spiced it up with that “gastrous ball” comment. So now I am full of schadenfreude at his latest gaffe.

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I’m more than a little tired of Christmas carols now — to be honest, I was exasperated around Halloween — so I don’t know if changing the lyrics is quite enough. But maybe it will work for you: here’s a gallery of scientific songs of praise, mostly familiar Christmas carols with fresh words.

I think I’ll stick with my usual medley of Nine Inch Nails songs of angst and frustration.

NPR is giving lessons in how to do the Minnesota accent

. I should probably practice so I can blend in better.

One nice thing about it is that they’re emphasizing the subtleties–it’s inspired by the television series, Fargo, but all the people in that show have the extreme version of the local accent — they all sound like they’re straight out of the Iron Range, way up north. Around where I live, the accent is recognizable but much, much softer.

We should all work on our accents while I struggle with a few other things: it’s a heavy grading day for me, and my computer is still mostly dead and unreliable (I’m pecking this out on my iPad, which is totally unsuitable for writing of any length). My goal is to get all the exams graded today, and reward myself wit the local showing of the new Star Wars movie.

Don’t worry, my keyboardless state means I won’t be able to dump spoilers on you. I’ll be reduced to short texting style one-liners by then. “WORST STAR WARS EVER.”

Here’s a whole album of traditional Christmas carols…sung by goats. If you were already sick of the noise droning on the radio, this will finally make you snap.

Although, to be honest, there have been a few answers that make me feel this, instead.

I do have a terrible confession to make: there was a time when I would reflexively shut off any music source that played Cash at me. It’s country western, don’t you know…it’s bad. And then I made the mistake of listening to the guy, and I had to admit — he was an artist.

A music festival called the Bay Area Deathfest does not appeal to me at all — I suspect there will be a lot of croaking and howling and thrashing guitars, and everyone will be dressed in black. But I could be wrong. My sons both listen to music like that, and while most of it makes me want to back away slowly, at least some of it is…interesting.

But I have to say that I get an impression of uniformity from the festival poster. It seems that almost every band in this genre has to have a completely illegible logo. The top two bands are “Cattle Decapitation” and “Psycroptic”, which I only know because I read the text of the web site. I’m not going to try to decipher the rest.

Except “Party Cannon”. Way to go against the expectations of the masses, Party Cannon!

The title of this post is extremely rude.

There! I did it again.

I can’t help myself.

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Man, I’m really potty-mouthed today.