Originally Posted by roachboy

well there are moments when the ultra-right seems to merge into something bigger than itself and there are others, like this, when it becomes vanishingly small, mired in it's own collective stupidity and/or myopia.

it's like the texas board of education was drinking at a party and decided to push the auto-trivialization button, the kind of thing that at other moments lands you photocopying your ass or singing thirties songs with a lampshade on your head, except this time rather than just humiliate themselves and go sleep it off they had a meeting.

erasing thomas jefferson from the history of the declaration of independence and constitution and replacing him with thomas aquinas of all things is amazing to me. the summary of sociology as "something that blames society for things"...you cannot be fucking serious. these people had to have been drunk. i prefer to think they were, that they were joking, that they had votes and collapsed into laughter and are now hoisted by their own petard because the snippy teetotaler keeper of minutes did not approve of any of this carrying-on and the board forgot to vote itself out of being able to pass actual measures, which they often do before these har-de-har evenings.

thomas aquinas, american revolutionary...they musta been on the floor laughing once they looked up who aquinas was.

or maybe these are just really stupid people whose views are not worth taking seriously, not worth arguing against. it is a shame that they are in a position to damage other people's children with their idiocy. if i lived in texas, i would just move. let the place fall in.