Front and Center on the Huffington Post’s Daily Brief for today Monday is a post by Robert Wright that begins began thusly:

Robert Wright: Why the “New Atheists” are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy

It must strike progressive atheists as a stroke of bad luck that Christopher Hitchens, leading atheist spokesperson, happens to have hawkish views on foreign policy. After all, with atheists an overwhelmingly left-wing group, what were the chances that the loudest infidel in the western world would happen to be on the right? Actually, the chances were pretty good. When it comes to foreign policy, a right-wing bias afflicts not just Hitchens’s world view, but the whole ideology of “new atheism.”

Now I was going to flip out about this and rant for hours about the logical fallacies, outright dishonesty, emotional self-servicing, and general stupidity of this post, but PZ Meyers handled it far more effectively. This is good, because I no longer feel a need to post it.

Occasionally I need to be reminded that you just can not reason with the unreasonable.