The National Secular Society is taking nominations for its Secularist of the Year Award. If you define secularism as keeping religion and government apart, I can think of no individual who’s done more work on that end than Dan Arel. He’s monitored Ken Ham and been the key figure, in my eye, of keeping taxpayer money out of the Noah’s Ark theme park project.

So nominate whoever you think deserves it, but let me mightily nudge you to also toss in a nomination for Arel. He’s not getting any of the taxpayer money he’s saved Kentucky, so this seems like the least we could do.