I have in the past occasionally waxed rantish about the fact that a science fiction club can be considered an artistic and educational charity in the USA but has no hope of achieving such standing in the UK. Just in case you didn’t believe that, I point you to a post by Ben Goldacre discussing a report by the Charities Commission called Public Benefit and the Advancement of Education. The comment that gets Ben’s goat is as follows:

An individual’s blog, on the other hand, is not likely to be of educative value, as neither the subject matter nor the process is of educational value.

Got that? Good. Now please go away and do something that is of educational value and stop wasting your time reading this blog. Alternatively, go and read Ben’s blog, because it is almost always educational, except in the minds of people who haven’t allowed in any original thought that is less than a few hundred years old. Just don’t read that report, because it is full of similar smug, self-righteous stupidity.