Texas and science curricula: same old song, different verse

Just when you thought that the Texas textbook question had been solved in favor of actual scientific rigor, the same old nonsense concerning textbooks rears its ugly head again (a full-length analysis of the issue by the Texas Freedom Network can be found in PDF form here). This was a tiresome issue a long time ago; now it's getting to be beyond tiresome and quickly turning idiotic instead. 

(Also on Lurker)

"I never touched that woman...or that woman...or that woman..."

A question to anyone who still takes Herman Cain seriously: if his, er, "ex-employees" and all those other women are lying, they've all got a considerable masochistic streak - the possibility of intense media scrutiny, attacks by angry high-profile Cain supporters, and potential lawsuits coming from Cain himself aren't really a nice set of problems to bring on yourself, love of publicity or no.

Conversely, if they're telling the truth, some of those same supporters should consider the possibility that they're either incredibly gullible or complete idiots (in the case of Bryan Fischer, I'm going with the latter option). Their choice.