realthog

And now you understand the current foofarol about the textbook committee with the Texas Board of Education. The current loudmouths are certain of their worldview, and yet so insecure about how they can't back up their arguments that the only option they have is to keep anyone else from being exposed to contrary points of view. (For years, I've wondered why the most idiotic and vocal creationists in Texas were always dentists. I chalk it up to exposure to mercury.) That's part of the stink, as well, about Governor Rick Perry refusing federal stimulus money to keep Texas schools funded because of the proviso that Texas would have to bring its school standards up to the national level. Perry doesn't like anybody around him who knows more than he does, and if that means keeping everyone in the state from getting more than a second-grade education, well...