Schoolin'

I've become mildly interested in the issue of home schooling as an educational practice, and started searching the Internet for curriculum materials. Not that I want to buy anything; I just wanted an idea of what's available to parents who need their kids to get a better education than those government schools provide. I found a science textbook that should prepare a youngster for MIT, Harvard or Stanford. A company called Apologia is apparently a major player in the home school curriculum racket, as is Bob Jones University.

Meanwhile in Austin, Rick Perry, budding dominionist, continues to dream of a Texan theocracy with himself as the high priest. The legislature, lacking anything better to do, passed a bill that evidently makes it legal to say "Merry Christmas" in godless public schools.

El Perrito could barely wait to make a public show of signing the silly-ass thing, complete with assurances to persecuted Christians that he's looking out for their poor, mistreated asses. It's getting harder to find vestiges of sanity in this state's government every fucking day. In Texas, it's "Get religion or get the hell out."