Voters told urologist Barney Maddox to piss off, leaving incumbent and former school teacher Pat Hardy in her position on the school board representing District 11. The people of that Texas District were too smart to be fooled by an excessively expensive campaign by Maddox who spent over $120,000 to Hardy's $10,000.
Incumbent Mary Helen Berlanga, also challenged by a hard right winger in her own party (Lupe Gonzales) appears also to be holding her own in District 2.
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I'm sad to report that John Maddox, former editor of Nature, has died.
Loathe as I am to admit it, a copy of James Watson's historical novel The Double Helix does reside on one of my bookshelves.
We are busy watching Florida, and the ICR's new "degree" in "life science education" in Texas, and whatever crap is happening in our own back yards, and we may be missing a dramatic development at the K-12 level in Texas: Social conservatives are poised to take over the Texas State Board of Educ
Yay! And in TX, that is pronounced Yee-Hah.
Pretty cool that God announced that in the same night that He Hates both Huckabee and Maddox.
A creationist urologist?
I guess he thinks that the prostate gland is an example of God's perfect design.
After all, it encircles the urethra so that any enlargement shuts off the urinary stream. It almost universally starts enlarging early in middle age. It turns cancerous at an astonishing rate.
God must be a urologist.
Old doctors' joke:
What is a cystoscope? A long metal tube with a prick at both ends.