I suppose it is only fitting in this, the centenary year of Samuel Beckett’s birth, that Poland take the last (?) few decisive steps to total absurdity. A Polish friend asked me last night if I had heard that Giertych wanted to stop the teaching of Darwinism in schools. Huh? Then I remembered: no that’s not Roman Giertych (minister of education) but his father, Maciej, a Franco-admiring MEP and crackpot. All he did was use the EU facilities to “debate” the theory of evolution.

But no, it’s worse than some MEP (virtually powerless and totally ineffectual by (intelligent) design) spouting off about monkeys and God. Poland’s deputy minister for education, Miros?aw Orzechowski, says in today’s Gazeta Wyborcza, and I quote, lest I be accused of making this shit up:

Teoria ewolucji to k?amstwo.

The theory of evolution is a lie.

Grim, bleak and all though he may have been, Beckett was at times quite funny.