"Perhaps you've missed this, but the Kansas school board has been taken over by fundamentalists, who've added scientifically nonsensical content to the biology curriculum, to make it conform with the addled theories of the Discovery Institute. It's so bad, in fact, that the National Academy of Sciences has refused to let Kansas use any of it's copyrighted material to draw up their new standards.
Truly, drive 100 miles south of here in Lincoln, NE, and you're back in the early 19th century."
Oh this is nice. Insult the entire region and pretend like you know more than most of them.
Oh, he probably doesn't expect us to be insulted. Us darn hick Kansans can't even pronounce his big ol' words.
I'm not insulting all of them, I'm insulting the school board and the idiots who voted them in. And it's my constitutional right and duty as a Nebraskan to insult Kansans.
Folks read the press coverage, fail to weed out the agenda of said press, and think they know the "facts." Strange... I'd expect more from a "professor." *wink*
But, then, according to you, we're all a bunch of unsophisticated hicks from the sticks...