Graphic from Colin Purrington, in commemoration of the kickoff of hearings at the Texas State Board of Education on science textbooks, September 18, 2013
Colin Purrington Tweeted, “Thanks, @ncse for helping keep Darwin in Texas science textbooks. #Whac-A-Mole #creationism #StandUp4Science pic.twitter.com/8dNYbqFELV.”
More:
- Terrence Stutz’s story of the hearing in the Dallas Morning News; preview story from the previous weekend
- Jacquielyn Floyd, columnist for Dallas Morning News, “Why can’t Texas evolve beyond anti-science foolishness?” (may be behind paywall)
- Joshua Fechter story of the hearing in the San Antonio Express-News
- Mother Jones, “WATCH: These global-warming-denying creationists want to rewrite science textbooks”
- “Adventures with the Texas State Board of Education,” Violent Metaphors
- Scientists Plead to Education Board “Not to Let Texas Once Again Become a National Embarrassment” (alternet.org)
- Evolution, creationism conflict reignites at board of education (kvue.com)
- Let a thousand ignoramuses bloom: Texas creationist wants pro-evolution texts adopted! (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)
- Zombie Festival of Texas Creationism (sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com)
- Usual Lefties Show Up: Evolution Debate at Sboe – by Dohna Garner – 9.18.13 (educationviews.org)
- Texas Wades Into Evolution Debate At Textbook Hearing (personalliberty.com)
- Texas Creationism: Textbook Selection Time (sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com)
- Biblical Biology?: Texas State Board Of Education Continues Descent Into Scientific Illiteracy (secularnewsdaily.com)
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
To quote Ed: James, I’m loathe to give up Alaska.
How about we let ‘em have Detroit, or Newark?
How about we give them the bikini atoll instead and we can give the residents of that place Texas in payment
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To quote TexasProud: Why don’t you go ahead and build that fence *******. I’d be fine not having to deal with the likes of you. Oh, and a Texas would be just fine as would Alaska as we watch the rest of you idiots spend your asses into oblivion on your social programs.
Really? Texas is one of the biggest welfare whore states in this country. It gets 40% of its budget paid for by the other 49 states. And that’s not even counting the hundreds of billions the US Government pumps into Texas’s economy yearly via military bases and other such things. You jokers are depaving your roads because you’ve cut taxes so much that you can’t afford it. Of course that doesn’t stop your precious Republicans from giving the rich and corporations more tax cuts. And tell me…didn’t you have a town blow up a few months ago because of the irresponsibility of the Texas government to take care of its own responsibilities?
Same goes for Alaska, child.
If they were both independent they would both be third world countries inside six months.
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James, I have friends in TX and would not like that to happen. The text book thing is more problematic, since it affects the rest of the country as far as what is available. It is troublesome when a State has dentists making decisions as to what should be called “science.”
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James, I’m loathe to give up Alaska.
How about we let ’em have Detroit, or Newark?
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TexasProud, please observe the rules of decorum here. This is a family blog.
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Why don’t you go ahead and build that fence *******. I’d be fine not having to deal with the likes of you. Oh, and a Texas would be just fine as would Alaska as we watch the rest of you idiots spend your asses into oblivion on your social programs. Don’t come knocking on our fence
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Since it would be expensive to build a border fence along the northern border of Texas…can we make a deal with the teabaggers and let them have Alaska as an independent country and we get the rest of the country?
It would also get rid of the Palin’s and my step great grandmother’s family.
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