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[Update: Turns out, Mr. Dipshit never actually graduated.]

I've been reading posts throughout the blogosphere about this article in the New York Times. But I still can't really believe what I'm reading. According to the article, there's this 24-year-old journalism grad dropout who works on the Bush/Cheney campaign and then gets an appointment at NASA in public relations. Then this arrogant little fuck decides to write a letter to some NASA scientists. Repeat: a 24 year-old journalism student dropout is writing this to some of the world's top scientists:

The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator."

What in the holy living fuck has this country come to? This is a public employee, a smart-ass kid, a journalism student dropout, for Christ's sake, on the public dime, telling NASA scientists to shut the fuck up if they're not going to preach about God as part of their official duties.

Mister Dipshit continues:

"This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue. And I would hate to think that young people would only be getting one-half of this debate from NASA. That would mean we had failed to properly educate the very people who rely on us for factual information the most."

So, in addition to massively misunderstanding what a theory is (working at NASA), he also believes that it's NASA's job to argue the religious side to the drooling knuckledraggers in this country who believe that the Big Bang is a science vs. religion argument instead of a well-tested scientific theory.

And there are people out there who will defend this dipshit. People who think it's okey-dokey for public employees to be out there preaching their religion (and requiring others to do so) as part of their official duties.