Florida Floriduuh over updating their K-12 science education standards to start teaching kids actual science (and the strident minority who were offended by that), and the even more recent attempt to completely undermine the new standards and grant teachers the "Academic Freedom" to ignore standards completely and teach whatever the hell they wanted (a battle still going on in several other states), now comes... Wizardy!
Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears. But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own. The charge from the school district — Wizardry!
So, on that note, I'd like to propose the state name be officially changed to "Floriduuh", and a new State Motto, "Floriduuh, The Most Retarded Place on Earth" and while we're at it, let's just declare that citizens of Floriduuh, especially anyone educated there, are now officially known as Floridiots. So, go ahead and call your favorite Floridiot and congratulate them... just be sure to speak slowly and use small words.
Update: May 9th 2008
By any reckoning, University of South Florida professor Lorena Madrigal, Ph.D., was the perfect choice to speak for this Friends of Brooker Creek Preserve event.
A respected scholar in the field of human evolution, on a day marking the birthday of the creator of the science of evolution, giving a speech in a setting inextricably linked to the study of biology, which indeed would reflect upon Darwinism, was considered too controversial?
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/08/me-evolution-darwin-day-big-problem/
Could only happen in Floriduuh! (Well, honestly, it could happen elsewhere (probably has), but it didn't this time, and I've got a great theme going here.) Come on Floridiots, keep the great material comming.
