Texas: Doomed

Via the DefCon blog comes that news that Texas governor Rick Perry has appointed a creationist to head the Texas State Board of Education. I'll give you a moment to clean off your screen. Yes, you read that right. At first I thought, "No, not even a politician in Texas could possibly do something that dumb, that contrary to reality, that horrifying to their kids. DefCon Blog must have gotten it wrong!" And then I did a few searches. DefCon Blog got it right. According to the Dallas Morning News: