It’s just a cracker

Congrats to PZ Myers. The caustic and often hilarious University of Minnesota, Morris professor and Pharyngula blogger has won the (not so) coveted Moore Award. This annual honor is given out by Daily Dish proprietor Andrew Sullivan for “divisive, bitter and intemperate left-wing rhetoric.” What did Myers do to earn this distinction? He threatened a cracker. More specifically he solicited a Catholic communion wafer with the vow to “treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse”

In response he got hate mail and death threats from across the globe, or what Myers termed “the most impressive demonstration of mass lunacy I have ever seen.” He finally followed through on the threat, piercing a communion wafer with a rusty nail and tossing it in the trash. The Minnesota Independent published an interview with the unrepentant cracker abuser in July.