Salty's new blog gets a namecheck

I'm sure many of us fondly remember that great iconoclast John (Salty) Davidson. Salty used to be a habitue of this board and whenever he started a thread hilarity was sure to ensue.Salty has recently come up from under the radar to appear on PZ Myers blog Pharyngula.This may not be a hot topic but I thought some of the oldtimers might like to know what Salty is up to currently.Page not found | ScienceBlogsTTFN,WKEdited by Wounded King, : because I can't spell

Here is one of his posts, but he is showing with 0 posts.

Problem is fixed. Member names are now case insensitive, so whereas "salty" and "Salty" used to be unique names, now they're the same name. Someone had registered "Salty", he's now "Salty II" (he never posted any messages). Salty now has the "salty" name back, but the primary alias he selected is "John A. Davison".Edited by Admin, : Grammar.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

This is well worth visiting. You *will* be rolling on the floor laughing. Here's a few extracts from Page not found | ScienceBlogs in the form of links and brief excerpts without attribution:

• John A. Davison's first blog: Prescribed Evolution
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• John A. Davison's second blog: New Prescribed Evolution (he doesn't understand that a blog can have more than one post)
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• In the immortal words of Jon Fleming, "He couldn't get a clue if he was drenched in clue pheromones, dancing in a clue field in the middle of clue mating season, wearing a clue suit, and shouting, "Clooo! Cloooo! "
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• I genuinely feel bad for the guy. That's just sad. I thought for a moment about trying to explain to him that you can post more than once on a blog. Then I thought, if this guy is a frequent commenter on other blogs, and therefore knows that it is possible to write more than one post on a blog, but has yet to realize that he can write more than one post on his blog, then my pedagogical skills are simply not sufficient for me to explain this to him.
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• Coturnix, what's the matter with you? The poor man obviously cannot handle more than one thought per blog, and you want to get him all confused and nervous with your talk of multiple posts and such? Don't you know that multiple post pathways in one blog would be irreducibly complex, and point to the existence of an Intelligent Reader actually, truly, deeply interested in what Davison has to say? Unless Dembski wants to rebut that "intelligent blogging is not optimal blogging," which is why DaveScot acts so stupid, I guess.
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• 20 years ago someone like Davison would have spent his 'golden years' writing angry letters to newspaper editors and writing angry articles that got rejected by journals. No one would have ever heard of him. Today we have blogs for such people. The effect of the internet has not been entirely benign.
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• Starting a new blog whenever your old thread gets too big is sort of like selling your car when the ashtrays get full.
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• Anybody else notice that under "Links," two of the three point to "How do I edit my link list?"
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• Wow. Not only does he not understand how the world works, he doesn't even understand the parameters of his OWN JOB:
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  "Apparently, according to Dinger, if one retires at the rank of Associate Professor, which I most proudly did, one has misrepresented himself when he desribes himself as Professor Emeritus which I most certainly have. I sign my email that way and that is just about the only time I ever use the term Emeritus Professor. The term Professor is not restricted to rank rank any more than is the term Doctor. I thought everyone knew that."
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  So, then, I can call myself a CEO, since those kinds of terms aren't restricted by rank?
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  Note: I exchanged emails with Davison's last department head a few years ago. She said she had no comment other than that Emeritus is not a title UVM bestowed upon Davison, and that Davision no longer has any official connection with the university. --Percy
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• Shameless, I know: it's time again for the classic dramas John A Davison orders a Pizza and John A Davison runs for office.
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• But what I want to know is why Dichard Rawkins doesn't have the cajones to show up in this guy's blog and refute his arguments. It's just like how Jngelina Aolie refuses to address my arguments on my blog as to why I'd be a better lover than Prad Bitt. Some people are afraid to confront the truth.
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• A little peripheral, but I just found the best word to describe intelligent design's remake from creationism, and thought I'd share:
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  palimpsest \PAL-imp-sest\, noun:
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  1. A manuscript, usually of papyrus or parchment, on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.
  2. An object or place whose older layers or aspects are apparent beneath its surface.
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• I suspect the next four installments will be
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  beneathprescribedevolution.blogspot.com
  escapefromprescribedevolution.blogspot.com
  conquestofprescribedevolution.blogspot.com
  battleforprescribedevolution.blogspot.com
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• "I welcome any comments about my published papers including my unpublished "An Evolutionary Manifesto: A New Hypothesis For Organic Change." I will tend to ignore any denigrations either of myself or my distinguished sources."
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  OK, those two statements were worth a Kilo-Coulter of Dain Bramage each. Ouch.
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  I really, really want to comment about his published unpublished work.

Ironically, I envy all the attention John A. Davison is getting. Would that it were so easy for EvC. Hmmm. Perhaps we should give John his own forum here, we could call it the Davison Corner, or the Davison Soapbox, etc. Hmmm, maybe not a bad idea!--PercyEdited by Percy, : Minor typo.

What about 'The Salt Cellar'?TTFN,WK

Why go that far? It would only have one post in it; we may as well have a Davison thread, with the post limit ignored We can occasionally start a new thread when the old one gets a bit too cluttered - every couple of years or so.

Well, I'll say one thing from my short reading of Salty's one subject blogs...he has improved slightly..he is not asking for everyone's names and addresses so that he can report them to the FBI as traitors...and he does not end each post with "let us pray"On the other hand, he does tend to get quite agitated even when he is the ONLY ONE posting on his site...split personality disorder?maybe his own EvC forum could be called A-salt-ed

Hey Percy, I provided a link on the blog to salty's original "defense" of the prescribed evolutionary hypothesis (or whatever the hell it's called). Maybe that will increase traffic here?