The AFA has a story about the ACSI lawsuit against the University of California right at the top of its page now. You know it’s important when you have to get rid of calls to oppose a .xxx domain (which, of course, makes zero sense).

For anyone who hasn’t heard about this, it’s a rather frightening attempt to force the UC system to accept credits from universities that don’t meet their academic standards. There’s a discussion of ACSI’s complaint here. As PZ Myers said:

If this lawsuit isn’t laughed out of court, I know what I’m going to have to do: set up a mail-order university in my basement, offer courses in Advanced Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics taught out of comic books, and tell people all they have to do is give me $200, I give them 100 credits in basic and upper level biology courses, and then they transfer to UC Berkeley, take a few basket-weaving courses, and graduate with a prestigious Berkeley biology degree. They have to accept any ol’ trashy transfer credits, after all.