Turkeys!

Remember that insult? My kids and their friends were using it back in the 1980s, to mean something akin to "stupid". I thought it was unfair, sometimes to the birds, and sometimes to the targets, usually other friends.

It may come back, but now with a slightly different slant.

Turkey (the country, not the bird) has blocked all wordpress blogs because one real turkey, in the 1980s sense, by name Harun Yahya, complained that bloggers were "defaming" him. (Read, "telling the truth about" him.)

Read more about it on Bug Girl's blog, microecos, Thoughts in a Haystack, Pharyngula, etc.

I'll quote a section from Pharyngula.

That fanatical nitwit wrote in to wordpress to brag about his accomplishment and demand that blogs that offend him be shut down, such as this one, and by the way, he'd also like all these blogs censored:

http://adnanoktar.wordpress.com
http://adnanoktarveislam.wordpress.com/
http://fitikado.wordpress.com
http://oktarbabuna.wordpress.com
http://adnancilar.wordpress.com/
http://adnanoktarveislam.wordpress.com/
http://whoisharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://adnanoktargercekleri.wordpress.com/
http://quiestharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://harunyahyaarabic.wordpress.com/
http://safsataciharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://savsatalaracevap.wordpress.com/

It sure would be a shame if someone echoed all those urls, and these anti-creationist blogs got more publicity and attention because of a stunt by Adnan Oktar, now wouldn't it?

And now, I guess, poor Adnan Oktar, a.k.a. Harun Yahya, will have to go back to court to have Blogspot and Scienceblogs blocked, too.

Turkeys!