Sun sign, Schmun sign

You might find it odd that a web site devoted to evolutionary biology such as The Panda's Thumb would add their $0.02 to the current "problem" in astrology concerning the proper dating of sun signs (in my opinion, it's only a "problem" if you actually consider this steaming pile of a glorified hobby an actual method of predicting the future; chances are that you shouldn't be reading this blog if you do), but they do here, and as Ian Musgrave says it's for a good reason:

So, basically Tropical Astrologers are complaining that, err, scientists are accurately describing astrology at the same time demonstrating ignorance of fundamental aspects of the sky (and their own discipline). Again, does that sound familiar?

It could be worse, of course. You could be dealing with a practitioner of this pap who waxes threatening every time someone mentions what sort of a thoroughly despicable twit he is, but I'm sure he'll continue to soldier on in his efforts to gain the same "immortality" the thoroughly dead Earl Gordon Curley has established for himself in terms of woo-promoting idiocy.