One really, really has to go to that link and read the FULL account to get the full effect. The stunner was when he said the JUDGE suggested to the plaintiff's attorneys that they object, so he bring the cross-x to an end, because it had gone so far afield and, in the judges words: "it's not helping me."
Waaaaaaaa!
From the characterization of the questions the judge DID allow in, I get the impression the judge is making SURE this case isn't going to get overturned on appeal, for denying defendants their chance to bring in everything, including the kitchen sink, into evidence during cross exam.....
I also suspect the plaintiffs' attorneys sense victory, and they aren't bothering to object very much to this rambling incoherent cross-exam because 1) they know it isn't going to hurt their case, and 2) why give the defense a point on which to try to appeal a decision against them?
Very interesting account of the case, I must say....
this cross examination is so absurd, so perfect an exemplar (even... charicature?) of the extreme edge of ID lunacy, that I am forced to consider the possibility that the IDiot's Counsel might have been bribed or planted by Darwin Central.