Texas Eugene Fischer | 24 Jan 2011
I’ve written before about how the Texas State Board of Education has been hijacked by ideologue fundamentalist Christians, and how this has repercussions for the entire country. (See here and here.) There is currently a project on Kickstarter to fund the editing of a documentary about creationist Don McLeroy, longtime chair of the TSBOE. In [...]
Texas &Writing Eugene Fischer | 01 Mar 2010
Missions Unknown is a blog about science fiction, fantasy, and horror topics in San Antonio, run by John Picacio, Sanford Allen, and Paul Vaughn. Last week Sanford interviewed me for their regular feature, “Made in S.A.” He asked about my stories, my background with writing, Clarion, and my current interest in the Texas State Board [...]
News &Texas Eugene Fischer | 11 Feb 2010
In a lovely bit of validation for my “This man must lose his job for the good of the country!” rant of two days ago, the New York Times Magazine has just published a ten page article on Texas education guidelines, with profiles of Don McLeroy, Gail Lowe, and Cynthia Dunbar. (Dunbar is perhaps the [...]
Texas Eugene Fischer | 09 Feb 2010
I haven’t been blogging a lot this year, but I’m breaking radio silence now because this one is big. A guy from Texas who you might never have heard of is running for re-election, and unusual as it might seem, it is strongly in your interest that he not win. Don McLeroy is currently on [...]
News &Texas &Video Eugene Fischer | 19 Nov 2009
So way back in 2005 the Texas legislature, in its alarmingly finite wisdom, passed an amendment to the state constitution to outlaw gay marriage. So eager were our elected representatives to protect us from the loathsome evil of same sex unions, it seems they may have overshot the mark somewhat and protected us from all [...]
