With yet more sympathy to PZ Myers: the idiot brigade moves in on Pharyngula

This is ridiculous. Very ridiculous.

No sooner do I post on the subject of PZ Myers receiving some truly moronic emails defending convicted tax evader and creationist/conspiracy theory/antisemitism huckster Kent Hovind at Myers' blog Pharyngula than he ends up getting barraged by Hovind apologists (including his especially vacuous son Eric) proving their complete lack of worth as anything except creative occupiers of  furniture (the thread PZ references can be found here). The following - from the earlier thread - is a good example of the level of "reasoning" that PZ has ended up having to slog through recently:

You are an arrogant jackass. Your pompousness is only exceeded by your stupendous idiocracy. The fact that you are game fully (sic) employed is proof that we were created and it was obviously not survival of the fittest. If there were any true justice in this country, you would be the one sitting in jail. Hey ape-man, go back and crawl under the rock from witch you came and do the world a favor…

Have a wonderful day

Likewise, here's this example from Eric Hovind himself from the bullying thread:

Nerd,
So I start with the pre sup that God is true, and I am a looser (sic). You start with the presup that you can reason that reason is valid. Back to my question, could you be wrong? You said no. Do you know everything?

Clever, no?

No.

By the way, the idiots I quoted might want to keep in mind that these are the reasons that Kent Hovind is in prison; they seem entirely independent of the content of the gargantuan loopiness he's advocated in the past, so it certainly doesn't turn on any bogus First Amendment argument. But then, expecting such twits to understand the difference between advocating wholesale nonsense and engaging in wholesale tax fraud because you think that such advocacy allows you to do so seems an impossible task for them to undertake.