Not to toot my own horn or anything...

[Godless Dave]

The local* weekly free newspaper printed a letter I wrote. Two weeks ago they ran two articles that were connected in a way I thought deserved comment.

http://www.citypages.com/letters/detail.asp?TID=1610


*Meaning it's printed and distributed locally, not owned locally. The City Pages is owned by New York's Village Voice empire.

[livius drusus]

Is that you, Nathan? Excellent job. The article seemed to imply at that Yecke didn't actually get confirmed as education commissioner. Am I reading it right?

[Godless Dave]

The article seemed to imply at that Yecke didn't actually get confirmed as education commissioner. Am I reading it right?

Yep, the state Senate voted not to confirm her, but they took their time doing it so she was acting commissioner for over a year. Creationism wasn't a factor in the decision not to confirm - but her crazy ideas about funding schools were.

She also tried to set the history curriculum back 60 years; she objected to the term "genocide" being used to describe the treatment of American Indians, for example. Fortunately you can't do anything in Minnesota without holding a few public debates so the most eggregious stuff got shot down. I think PZ went to one of the public discussions about the science standards.

[viscousmemories]

Good letter, GD. :1thumbup:

[Seven of Nine]

Yes, it is! Feel free to toot your own horn anytime. Don't cheat us by being modest, GD. :D

[Shake]

Shweeet!

Nice letter, GD!

[maddog]

Bravo, Dave!
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[Crumb]

Cool GD. Toot away. :1thumbup: