More education idiocy from Texas

[pokerfan]

If you fail an IQ test in Texas, do they automatically put you in the legislature?

Category: Creationism
Posted on: March 20, 2009 12:30 PM, by PZ Myers

I'm trying figure out how this insane bill could even get a hearing. State Representative Leo Berman (R, of course) was peeved that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board ruled that the Institute for Creation Research would not be allowed to grant degrees. So, he came up with an amazingly stupid idea: pass a law that would allow private, non-profit education institutions to grant degrees without the board's permission. Which, if you think about it, is actually kind of brilliant in the sense that it's hard to imagine a worse solution.

If it were to pass, though, I'd like to move to Texas for a few months, open a free daycare, and issue doctoral degrees to every toddler who can go a day without pooping his pants.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/03/if_you_fail_an_iq_test_in_texa.php

[tbyg52]

1. One thing ya gotta say for us - we do provide entertainment.

If that idiocy passes, I *will* hang out my shingle and start issuing degrees!

[pokerfan]

3. It's not like Oklahoma is any better

Oklahoma Legislature Investigates Richard Dawkins' Free Speech
by Greg Lukianoff
Friday, March 20, 2009

Reposted from:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-lukianoff/oklahoma-legislature-inve_b_177473.html

Well, it's official: Oklahoma's state legislature is investigating the University of Oklahoma for hosting a speech by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

As I noted in a post over the weekend at Dawkins' website, the legislature first considered two resolutions condemning both Dawkins and the theory of evolution as "an unproven and unpopular theory." (I highly recommend reading both of the proposed resolutions.) Despite their efforts, the legislature failed to prevent Dawkins from speaking on March 6 to an audience of thousands at the University of Oklahoma.

Last week, however, I received multiple reports that the legislature was now investigating the speech, and I wrote the University of Oklahoma President David Boren directly asking to know if this was true.

http://richarddawkins.net/article,3664,n,n

[Demoiselle]

2. Why limit it?

Grant doctoral degrees even to those who DO poop in their pants.

[dkofos]

4. Until we can get FAIR, OPEN and HONEST elections in Tx. we will be

stuck with idiocy like this.