Comments on: Texas Textbook Excerpts

By: Brian McFadden

Brian McFadden — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:30:05 +0000

Archemedes Rex - But Texas is electing folks who are decimating those precious science textbooks. Related: Amarillo's Army of God.

By: Archemedes Rex

Archemedes Rex — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:29:44 +0000

As a born and raised Texan, let me point out that many of us are non-religious. Some of us call ourselves Agnostic, while a good portion of Texas is Hard Atheist. I’m in that portion. My parents worked for NASA in Clear Lake, and gave me a scientific view of reality in the form of science textbooks when I was seven, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos in the eighties.

I grew up to view religion from the outside. And you know what? It ALL looks silly from out here.

By: Slut Lover

Slut Lover — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:12:39 +0000

I remember in about 1983 reading in Hustler about these two Texans who exerted inordinate control over the nation’s textbooks. Mel Gabler, I think was the name, and his wife. They were Assholes of the Month. I also remember reading in the high school “history” textbook of my nephew in Houston, that the Confederacy won all the early battles in the Civil War because southern soldiers were country folks and northern soldiers were city folks who didn’t know how to fight. My nephew also like Hustler but had not heard of the Gablers.

By: ZackBauer

ZackBauer — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:55:27 +0000

Yeah, it’s mind-boggling. The next thing you know the vapors will make a comeback. Did they have a vaccine for that?

By: Brian McFadden

Brian McFadden — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:57:54 +0000

Blake – How Christian of them!

ZackBauer – Lots of parents are listening to her, and that one discredited doctor. Measles(!) has made a comeback because of it.