Blogger Jack Diederich has, by wise arts unknown to me, turned my Radio Derb

spot into a written transcript here.

In the e-mail informing me of this, he asks whether it is Radio Derb or Derb

Radio. Sorry, I don’t know.

He also asks why I am John DAH-byshire, but it’s Radio DERB. Sorry, don’t

know that, either.

On other matters:

—Huge e-bag on yesterday’s JPII piece, which I shall do my best with. To

the several readers who demand clarification of my position on matters

theological: I have in mind to write at length on this sometime soon, but

in the meantime this will have to do . For further insights into Anglicanism as I like

it, I recommend the article by (atheist) Matthew Parris in a recent

Spectator.

—Yes, I saw Sharon Begley’s piece in Science Journal

this morning (you need a WSJ subscription, I

think). Yes, I am miffed she didn’t give me a mention, especially as she

has clearly pinched a couple of ideas from my book. Yes, she is obviously

clueless about transfinite numbers — and believe me, she knows it by now.

If you make a blooper of that magnitude in an outlet like the WSJ, there

isn’t a hard drive big enough to download all the mocking e-mails you’ll

get. Let me tell you.

—I have been remiss in, amongst many other things, helping promote the May

5 Atlanta bash. It will be great fun. YOU SHOULD SIGN UP. Jonah will be

doing his regular routines — fire-eating, juggling chain saws, hammering

nails into his face, etc. — Kathryn will be showing off some curious

devices she picked up in Spain last year on that “Great Dungeons of the

Inquisition” tour, Ramesh will do his well-known recitation of the entire US

Constitution backwards, and I promise not to sing.