TEXAS - Stupidity Still Reigns

[Minimalist]

http://news.yahoo.com/evolution-debate-a...02430.html

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Education used a late-night meeting to preliminarily approve new science textbooks for classrooms across the state late Thursday night, but it blocked signing off on a major new biology text until alleged "errors" in lessons over the theory of evolution are checked by outside experts.

Fucking assholes.

[Sejanus]

Only in America...

[Captain Colostomy]

Christ. Is 'outside experts' Texan for 'pseudoscienticians'?

[Rahul]

Members outside the socially conservative bloc claimed their colleagues waited until the dead of night to try and impose ideological edits.

"To ask me — a business degree major from Texas Tech University — to distinguish whether the Earth cooled 4 billion years ago or 4.2 billion years ago for purposes of approving a textbook at 10:15 on a Thursday night is laughable," said Thomas Ratliff, a Republican from Mount Pleasant.

He added: "I believe this process is being hijacked, this book is being held hostage to make political changes."

Hey! Thomas is from Mount Pleasant. That's right down the road from where I grew up. I know Mount Pleasant well.