Texas "clods" up in arms

A local professor has provoked the entire community of Alpine, TX, by penning a "Mark-Twain sort of" article about the appalling ignorance of his neighbors. Death threats and egging by the "dumbest clods on the planet," as Dr. Sechrest described them, have ensued.

I'm sure just about everything in the offending article is an accurate description of small-town Texas. Still, I think I'd be a little bit frightened to call a bunch of proud Texans "appallingly ignorant, irrational, anti-intellectual, and, well, . . . just plain stupid" to their faces!

An interesting read.