getting much worse. there s been an extreme right-wing takeover of the curriculum down there, and that affects what happens to the textbooks in the rest of america. it s a big deal for the entire country, not just texas. we re talking about stripping civil rights, reducing women s history. taking evolution out. and when you start messing with science, things get a little tricky, because i kind of feel like that s an all or nothing game. you take science or you leave it. you don t have the world be 6,000 years old and then use the interpr internet to talk about it. that s inconsistent. the onion did a story about how they might be teaching spanish in english in texas. and people thought that was absurd, but in rick perry s supermajority, maybe not so much. and that huge state is extremely diverse. in fact, at current rates of projection, the hispanic majority will be in place in about 20 years in the state. not everybody s going to fall in line with this tea party agenda. is there a b