Texas governor Rick Perry has joined George in his anti-science crusade and appointed a nutbird looney creationist to CHAIR the State Board of Education. We shit you not.

The appointee, Dr. Don McLeroy, has repeatedly voted to stifle scientific information in textbooks covering evolution. From an Austin American-Statesman editorial:

In 2001, McLeroy and a majority of the board rejected the only Advanced Placement textbook for high school environmental science because its views on global warming and other events didn’t comport with the beliefs of the board majority. The book wasn’t factual and was anti-American and anti-Christian, the majority claimed. Meanwhile, dozens of colleges and universities were using the textbook, including Baylor University, the nation’s largest Baptist college.

You can find out even more “proud to be ignorant” information on McLeroy’s web site, which is chock full of anti-intellectual — he’s a big fan of Conservative anti-Enlightenment author and discredited moralist Paul Johnson — anti-evolution, abstinence-only claptrap. He is, of course, an Aggie, and lives in Bryan.