Victory on academic-freedom grievance
The last agreed-upon changes to the USF computer network user agreement were completed yesterday, so I can now explain that even though the university took more than nine months (285 days, to be precise), USF’s computer network guidelines no longer have speech codes embedded in them. I’m very surprised it took this long, but I […]
Where creationist battles are fought
An interesting little piece on Daily Kos today about the tendency of intelligent design creationists to target small towns—and the fiscal pain of the towns who agree to carry the banner for creationists. This has a long history, going back to John Scopes’ test of Tennessee’s anti-evolution law in Dayton, Tennessee, as a town boosterish […]