I mean they're, is it surprising that Barack Obama was elected and he goes around apologizing in every country he goes to, when people are spoon fed years in high school and college of anti-American history? I mean quite honestly I think people learn more from listening to Rush Limbaugh's show than they do in high school and college. And do you have a response?

Really. People learn more from listening to Rush than they do in high school and college. Anti-American history.

Seriously, I couldn't make this shit up. I'm not sure which one is closer, Germany in 1933 or Idiocracy. And no, that's not overstatement.

GOP Listening Tour Gives Jeb Bush Some Answers: Who Needs High School or College When You Can Listen to Rush Limbaugh | Video Cafe

The call to fire Comer came from Lizzette Reynolds, who previously worked in the U.S. Department of Education. She also served as deputy legislative director for Gov. George W. Bush. She joined the Texas Education Agency as the senior adviser on statewide initiatives in January.

Reynolds, who was out sick the day Comer forwarded the e-mail, received a copy from an unnamed source and forwarded it to Comer's bosses less than two hours after Comer sent it.

"This is highly inappropriate," Reynolds said in an e-mail to Comer's supervisors. "I believe this is an offense that calls for termination or, at the very least, reassignment of responsibilities.

"This is something that the State Board, the Governor's Office and members of the Legislature would be extremely upset to see because it assumes this is a subject that the agency supports."

The subject of the email is question? A local appearance by one of the major witnesses in the Dover intelligent design case, and author of "Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse," a book highly critical of the intelligent design movement.

So, to recap, the head of science education in Texas was suspended with recommendation to fire because she was opposed to ID. The sheer audacity and stupidity of the "right" continues to astound me.

State science curriculum director resigns

On a 6-3 vote, the board replaced the policies with one that recommends "abstinence plus" sex education programs and leaves it up to the state's 296 school districts to decide whether to get parental permission.

The "abstinence plus" program stresses abstinence before marriage, while also urging schools to give students information about birth control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

It's nice to see Kansas finally starting to join the 20th century.

Kansas Board of Ed.�repeals conservative sex ed policies - CNN.com

"What can I do with a Liberal Arts Degree?"

Just take a look. It's pretty self explanatory. And sad/funny.

University of Alabama | College of Arts & Sciences

Mr. Nassirian said people at the Education Department had described the omission as “a clerical mistake.” But it is “odd,” he said, because applying the subject codes “is a fairly mechanical task. It is not supposed to be the subject of any kind of deliberation.”

“I am not at all certain that the omission of this particular major is unintentional,” he added. “But I have to take them at their word.”

Scientists who knew about the omission also said they found the clerical explanation unconvincing, given the furor over challenges by the religious right to the teaching of evolution in public schools. “It’s just awfully coincidental,” said Steven W. Rissing, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio State University.

Deleting something from a document in Word is an accident, but very easy to correct. If you look at the PDF, 26.1303 is simply gone. That's not an "accident."

Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List - New York Times

Huckabee’s answer was laced with important misconceptions about science. Perhaps the most insidious problem with his response is that it plays on our sense of democracy and free expression. But several court decisions have concluded that fairness and free expression are not violated when public school teachers are required to teach the approved curriculum. These decisions recognized that teaching creationism is little more than thinly veiled religious advocacy.

Long, but the basics are, schools ignore the what the state says is the curriculum because if they don't the fundamentalists go nuts.

Arkansas Times: Arkansas Devolves.

As no evidence in the record indicates that any other scientific proposition’s validity rests on belief in God, nor is the Court aware of any such scientific propositions, Professor Behe’s assertion constitutes substantial evidence that in his view, as is commensurate with other prominent ID leaders, ID is a religious and not a scientific proposition.

Judge Jones takes the ID case and manages to rip it into little itty bitty pieces, which is easy to do in legalese, and then piss on the pieces, which is very hard to do in legalese. If you understand legalese, it's a masterpiece of damning insult.

Update: It's a damn long read but wow does he lambaste these guys.

The Full Dover 'ID is Garbage' Judicial Opinion

The Worst Jobs in Science
Pain, Tedium, Danger, Disgust, Humiliation—It's all just part of the average workday for the (often proud, more often smelly) members of our third annual honor roll of the Worst Jobs in Science

By John Galvin | October 2005

3. Kansas Biology Teacher
On the front lines of science's devolution

Oh the humiliation...

The Worst Jobs in Science - Popular Science

On Dec. 12, the Federal District Court in Los Angeles will hear a lawsuit filed by a consortium of Christian high schools against the University of California system for refusing to credit some of their courses when their students apply for admission.

And if I were a university, I wouldn't count a course that said Thomas Jefferson was the anti-christ as something worthwhile either.

Here's the Problem With Emily Dickinson - New York Times