Try Real Hard To Remember the Alamo!

So the cowboys and cowgirls on the Texas State Board of Education now order changes in Texas schoolchildren's textbooks, changes which are motivated by the conservative political view to the point that the modifications will be semi-historical or even anti-historical. Jeez, what a wacky, weird state with its hurricanes and humidity, its Willie Nelson characters and crazed cowboys, its polluted oil towns and dust prairies, its roaming steer and moaning football fanatics and barking Bible thumpers, its giant barbeque and chili stands, etc.

I hope that my children, grandchildren, and I never have to live in that cactus haven. You can't tell me that Texas cowboys and Board members, when they're branding their cattle, don't sort of "accidentally" brand each other every once in a while. It must be their way in that state of letting off stress.