You already know the big news, like how the gubmint is going to shut down because the GOP didn't get a lollipop or something, so you don't need us to 'splain to you about what how the NYT is talking about it. But let's not limit our sad to national politics, ok? The NYT shows us how to take it to the next level and be really really stupendously depressed all over again about
CA does have about the same influence as TX, but tends not to ask for deletions of content as much as TX does. Both states buy a lot of textbooks statewide, which is why publishers cave to them.
My mental image of MoDo in a sex shop is overwhelmed by my simultaneous mental image of Miss D, decked out in khaki and pith helmet, perched atop an elephant while venturing out on safari into deepest darkest Middle America.
&quot;If looks could kill it would have been us instead of <strike>him</strike> them...&quot;
Getting old in NYC could be charming . . . so long as you&#039;ve got $2 mil in your IRA. Them olds are living in a $600 rent-controlled apartment.
It would be nice if a publisher or two said &quot;Fuck Texas&quot; and put out proper reality-based science textbooks. With no real competition, they ought to have little difficulty selling them to the non-dumbfuck states.
&quot;trained biologist&quot; They gave him a biscuit every time he said &quot;just a theory&quot;, and if he said &quot;evidence&quot;, they swatted him on the nose.
Why bother having anyone who is science related on the board at all? A pipe-fitter, door to door bible-salesman, and Davey from Davey and Goliath would work just as well.
And if the TX textbook panel weren&#039;t depressing enough already, consider this: Texas buys such large quantities of textbooks that they frequently are able to influence national publishers to change their content. I recall the time Texas tried to get art history textbooks to remove all the nudity. Yep, including Michelangelo&#039;s David and all of ancient Greek and Roman art.
On a lighter note: there is a tiny little couple who eat dinner out at my local French bistro every evening. They are in their 80s and they hold hands. NYC is a great place to be really old, because you can always catch a cab and nothing is far away. What with Obamacare and all, I plan to get old enough to outlive Tom Friedman and dance on his grave.
Schoolbooks require facts? Genesis has facts. Talking snakes and incest to start with. I imagine they put a slightly different spin on it when inflicting it on students.
Quiznos seems surprisingly edgy for Mormonville.
CA does have about the same influence as TX, but tends not to ask for deletions of content as much as TX does. Both states buy a lot of textbooks statewide, which is why publishers cave to them.
My mental image of MoDo in a sex shop is overwhelmed by my simultaneous mental image of Miss D, decked out in khaki and pith helmet, perched atop an elephant while venturing out on safari into deepest darkest Middle America.
&quot;If looks could kill it would have been us instead of <strike>him</strike> them...&quot;
Getting old in NYC could be charming . . . so long as you&#039;ve got $2 mil in your IRA. Them olds are living in a $600 rent-controlled apartment.
It would be nice if a publisher or two said &quot;Fuck Texas&quot; and put out proper reality-based science textbooks. With no real competition, they ought to have little difficulty selling them to the non-dumbfuck states.
Although, when it blows up, it takes out the folks who live across the street.
&quot;trained biologist&quot; They gave him a biscuit every time he said &quot;just a theory&quot;, and if he said &quot;evidence&quot;, they swatted him on the nose.
Why bother having anyone who is science related on the board at all? A pipe-fitter, door to door bible-salesman, and Davey from Davey and Goliath would work just as well.
&quot;they aren&#039;t fooling anyone but themselves.&quot;
And many states that have to purchase science textbooks.
And if the TX textbook panel weren&#039;t depressing enough already, consider this: Texas buys such large quantities of textbooks that they frequently are able to influence national publishers to change their content. I recall the time Texas tried to get art history textbooks to remove all the nudity. Yep, including Michelangelo&#039;s David and all of ancient Greek and Roman art.
On a lighter note: there is a tiny little couple who eat dinner out at my local French bistro every evening. They are in their 80s and they hold hands. NYC is a great place to be really old, because you can always catch a cab and nothing is far away. What with Obamacare and all, I plan to get old enough to outlive Tom Friedman and dance on his grave.
Schoolbooks require facts? Genesis has facts. Talking snakes and incest to start with. I imagine they put a slightly different spin on it when inflicting it on students.