A reader writes:

As a molecular evolutionary biologist can I just send you a primal "AAAARGGGGHHHHH!!!" in response to Sarah Palin, the figure-head of a regressive, anti-intellectual, anti-science movement, using the language of Natural Selection and behavioral biology to make the case for her vague "freedom" agenda?

No?  Then I apologize.  I'll return to head-butting my lab bench until the pain in my soul stops.

As far as Palin is concerned, the pain in one's soul never stops.

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