Embarrasing Texas Moment

The New York Times, among others, is reporting on the battles on the Texas Board of Education over evolution. Wonderful. I love and am fascinated deeply by this state but this shit makes us look like the Salem town council. The moderates won on the dismissing of a rule that teachers and their students explore the "strengths and weaknesses" of all theories. You heard us, all theories. The Snake Handlers won w/ a new rule that teachers must instruct the kids, those who are still listening, on aspects of the fossil record that don't jibe w/ the idea of species changing over time(there should be a term for that) such as species that don't change and sudden appearances of new species. Ah well, time and evolution are on our side. I always liked the Marvel comics character the High Evolutionary. He was this guy was neither good nor bad but hung around anthropomorphizing animals. Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth, was another good not so funny animal book.