{"id":18713,"date":"2010-05-22T04:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/texas-doomed-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-22T04:46:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:46:01","slug":"texas-doomed-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/texas-doomed-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Texas: doomed | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/37271857\/ns\/us_news-life\/\">that&rsquo;s that<\/a>. Congratulations, Texas State Board of Education and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/05\/18\/ca-to-tx-weve-got-our-eye-on-you\/\">the far-right creationist historical revisionists on it<\/a>. This outcome is not a surprise, but that doesn&rsquo;t make it any less infuriating, or any less sad. After all the fighting, all the negative publicity, and all the people &mdash; including teachers and educational experts &mdash; who showed them clearly why they were wrong, the antireality majority on the BoE did what we knew they would do.<\/p><p>If I were a parent of a school-age child in Texas, I would seriously consider moving to a different state. Because&hellip;<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1ef8a_doomed_texas.jpg\" alt=\"Texas: doomed\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3758\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the ten gallon hat &mdash; with, apparently, nothing in it &mdash; to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alanbuckingham\/status\/14468712616\">Alan Buckingham<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pInWFHVWrhfGhVmJhvUXUIgl7zU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1ef8a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pInWFHVWrhfGhVmJhvUXUIgl7zU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5c6ad_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5c6ad_yQ_RvRseXC4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5c6ad_Bz5ySwCNucw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&rsquo;s that. Congratulations, Texas State Board of Education and the far-right creationist historical revisionists on it. This outcome is not a surprise, but that doesn&rsquo;t make it any less infuriating, or any less sad. After all the fighting, all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/texas-doomed-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}