As you know, your Curmudgeon has been struggling with the new editor here at WordPress, and we’ve also been struggling to restore the old classic editor. Nothing works. Oh, we can write — as we’re doing now, but we can’t do links, and we can’t correctly format excerpts from other blogs and articles.
So where does that leave us? Well, we can’t keep blogging as we used to. That’s not much of a catastrophe. We’ve mentioned before that creationism isn’t what it used to be. In recent years, there haven’t been many creationist laws introduced into state legislatures — and those that do get introduced never become law. Also there hasn’t been any litigation about creationism. Since Kitzmiller (no link, but you can find it at Wikipedia), lawyers haven’t been interested in the subject. Also, we don’t encounter many creationists running for public office with creationism as part of their campaign.
So we don’t have hard-core creationist news like we did in the early days of this blog. We still have creationist organizations, and we probably always will, but other than appealing to (and soliciting funds from) hard-core droolers, outfits like the Discoveroids and Hambo’s tourist attractions don’t mean too much.
It won’t be a catastrophe if this humble blog goes out of business. We’ll miss it, because it’s been a load of fun, and some of our commenters have been with us from the beginning. But we don’t have to shut down completely. We can still post occasional essays — as we’re doing now — which don’t require any special formatting. Maybe we’ll do some of that. But the principal function of this blog — ridiculing creationist websites and activities — can’t be done without links and formatting.
Anyway, that’s the situation. This blog, as we’ve known it, won’t be around any more. We’ll miss it, and we’ll miss you. But we may have things to say from time to time, and If we do, we’ll say it here, at the same website. Until then, your Curmudgeon is signing off.
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