I was about to say this is the craziest ^*(%# thing I ever heard of . . .

. . . but that's become a very high bar. On August 1, it will become the law in Texas that carrying of concealed firearms is permitted on campuses of all four-year public colleges. That includes classrooms, dining halls, you name it. So the faculty senate president at the University of Houston has been advising professors:

• Be careful when discussing certain topics
• Drop certain topics from your curriculum
• Not "go there" if you sense anger
• Limit student access [i.e. to your presence] off hours

Indeed. There have been a few instances of students murdering professors over grades and theses. James Holmes, the Aurora Colorado theater shooter, was a graduate student when he had his psychotic break, and that's the typical age for it. Young men in Texas include a whole lot of politically radical gun and violence fetishists who aren't having any truck with evolution, cosmology, climate change, or most of what I teach in public health for that matter.

It doesn't bother me a bit if Texas wants to secede.