Check out this absolutely excellent analysis of the media coverage of the Nov 19, 2008 Texas State Board of Education hearing, fair, or "balanced"? by Tony Whitson on his Curricublog. What he says is absolutely right on the money. They give equal...

The truth will set you free. But first it will make you damn mad. - Scott Peck. I just came across this Fox News video "Evolution Debate Could Decide Children's Future" - which covered the State Board of Education hearing last Wednesday, and I'm in...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. - Voltaire I have posted blog posts about my testimony at Daily Kos as Messin' with Texas Education, and at Texas Kaos - where it's...

A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth can be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself. -Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island. I just got home from Austin after...

Palin gave her first policy talk and during this talk which was about special needs funding, she ridiculed fruit fly research... She said: “…sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like...