Comments on: Texas State Board of Education May Shift to Pro Creationism

By: K.P.

K.P. — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:11:14 +0000

There is a big difference between ‘libertarian’ as a philosophy and ‘libertarian’ as a convenient refuge for the lazy and irresponsible.

By: John

John — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:26:04 +0000

“Libertarian Fundamentalist”? I usually think of Libertarians as people who think the government should pretty hands-off, most famously the free market but also personal decisions including abortion and drugs. That doesn’t sound fundamentalist to me. ‘Reason’ is a libertarian magazine and they publish quite a bit of anti-religion in politics articles.

By: Joshua Zelinsky

Joshua Zelinsky — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:23:35 +0000

“He has also opposed comprehensive sex education (insisting that the current Texas policy of Abstinence Only policy), is a knon anti-gay homophone” – I’m not sure what that is supposed to read as. Also a “majority of socila conservatives” – “socila” should be “social”.

By: uncle noel

uncle noel — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:16:00 +0000

I signed the petition and emailed the link to my colleagues. Thanks for notifying us. I meant there’s nothing we can do about the election in Ft Worth.And it’s not like there aren’t cretins in MN or MA: I believe your alma mater awarded a degree to our President, for example – one of the very “yahoos” from Texas you were refering to! I’m afraid I’ve lost respect for Harvard and Yale because of that. It is, indeed, the “balance of power” that’s the problem. I’ll see what I can do.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:27:32 +0000

Uncle noel: I do hope that you don’t really think that there is nothing you can do but mildly complain about the ridicule I dish out! Go sign the petition, make a phone call or two, send an email. Find the on line newspaper pieces on this … many have comment areas, and that is a way to voice an opinion. Write a letter to the editor. Viist the National Center for Science Education web site.http://www.natcenscied.org/There is stuff you can to!

By: MRL

MRL — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:27:55 +0000

Er…he’s a homophone? Of what?

By: uncle noel

uncle noel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:15:15 +0000

Be nice. Let’s say Texas is a diverse state (40% ain’t zero). I’m a science teacher here in Houston (at one of the best public schools in the country – seriously) and I hadn’t heard about this. I guess there’s not much we can do except watch, but I’ll let our bio people know. We really do want to maintain high educational standards and keep religion out of public schools.

By: Eamon Knight

Eamon Knight — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:49:30 +0000

Maddox is a urologist....I really shouldn't make fun of a perfectly legitimate and necessary medical specialty, but....damn, this situation seems to invite all kinds of satirical abuse ;-).Like this one, for starters:But his position is fairly clear from his prior leakage.So go ahead, folks: let's take the piss out of this guy....