Of course, I’d say that *any* non-fiction you read should be “approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered,” but that’s a different matter ...

When are these MOFOs gonna shut up and leave us normals alone? Sheesh.

“Creationism is a STORY, not a theory or fact.”

Here’s one for the kiddies:

“NOTE:  The textbook you are about to read has been pounded to mush by various political interest groups who want to make sure it will portray minorities correctly, not offend anyone, and meet goals set by not one committee - that would be bad enough - but dozens of self-appointed experts in school curriculum.  The production of textbooks by this method is not yet controversial but it should be.”

“NOTE: This textbook contains letters, which have been shown to be harmful to impressionable minds.”

Oh, DOF, we certainly don’t want to worry about teaching offensive things about minorities in our schools.  After all, the madrassas don’t worry about it, so why should we? 

As Bill Hicks’ waffle waitress once said:
“What you reading for???”

Good news: CNN reports that the US District Judge has ruled the stickers unconstitutional.

His conclusion, he said, “is not that the school board should not have called evolution a theory or that the school board should have called evolution a fact.”

“Rather, the distinction of evolution as a theory rather than a fact is the distinction that religiously motivated individuals have specifically asked school boards to make in the most recent anti-evolution movement, and that was exactly what parents in Cobb County did in this case,” he wrote.

“By adopting this specific language, even if at the direction of counsel, the Cobb County School Board appears to have sided with these religiously motivated individuals.”

The sticker, he said, sends “a message that the school board agrees with the beliefs of Christian fundamentalists and creationists.”

“The school board has effectively improperly entangled itself with religion by appearing to take a position,” Cooper wrote. “Therefore, the sticker must be removed from all of the textbooks into which it has been placed.”

I’m glad to see that the judges are still on the ball, even if fundamentalist parents keep trying to push their agenda on the local schools.