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Bill Nye Boo’d In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun

Bill Nye, the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun. As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.But don’t tell that to the good people of Waco, who were “visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence,” according to the Waco Tribune.

Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College’s Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.

But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”

The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.

At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled “We believe in God!” and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they’d always suspected.

This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarassment.
And, on a related note:

Judge:
Q: Recent polls have shown 1/5 of Americans can’t locate America on a world map. Why do you think this is?

Miss South Carolina: (and this is exactly what she said)
A: I personally believe that, U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some… people out there in our nation that don’t have maps, and I believe that our education, like such, as in South Africa and Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should… our education over here in the U.S., should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future.., for our…

Announcer: Thank you very much South Carolina

(Miss Teen USA contestant. It’s real. Watch the video here. )

He died.

I guess they worked on him for hours and couldn’t get his heart to keep beating long enough to try to figure out what was wrong with him.

I got the call about ten last night.

We finally got some news this morning.
After the examination they found out that he had a birth defect inside his heart that no one even thought of looking for.
Evidently some part of the heart was much much thinner than it was supposed to be and it just gave out.
 
I guess when it’s something like that, you really just never know until something happens.

Personally, I’m okay. 
Have worked through any guilt/remorse I had about doing the right thing/not doing enough to save him.
Was angry this morning before we knew what happened.
Now I’m just worried about his dad and brother.
His dad is one of my good work buddies.
Gonna cook them up some food tonight, I think.

Fucking 16 years old.