re: #285 Aceofwhat?

but short-term trends are not a cause for alarm unless their context (i.e. long-term history) would indicate a cause for alarm.

Why do you think that?

and that’s even if i accept the premise that there is “more”…what was your term…’influence of the radical religious right’…which i don’t.

But why don’t you? Why are you dismissing the attempts to get creationism into schools, the attacks on abortion rights, the religiously-based objections to AGW?