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"I was initially drawn to Crawford, because I'd been effectively duped. I didn't know that Bush wasn't from Crawford."

Just a short time before George W. announced his intentions to run for King of Amurca, the New Haven-born hopeful bought a ranch in tiny Crawford, Texas. From this suitably folksy pulpit, he engineered that down-home, aw-shucks presidential campaign persona that captivated/divided the nation, and then there were those hanging chads and...well, you know the rest.

*The views expressed in Truesday are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole. Thank heavens.* -The Editors Tomorrow. Not today. Tomorrow. Since I obviously have no grasp on the creative senses of the five people who accidentally read this column every week (just a shitload of party notifications and other non-creative tripe hit the ol’ electronic mailbox), I have no flags to report beyond my own. Oh, but I’ll...

The kids returning to UT Austin have something extra special to brag about this year: the university was just named the country's number one party school in a survey of 115,000 college students conducted by the Princeton Review, beating the likes of Penn State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and (snicker) Brigham Young University. In addition to dominating the overall list, Longhorn students were ranked: 2nd in the "use of hard liquor" 3rd in beer...