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We're Texas [Extra Extra]
- Sob! Local band Voxtrot is breaking up.
- AT&T is offering $5,000 smackaroos if you can help them figure out who’s been stealing their copper wires right off the telephone poles in H-town!
- Column from The Daily Texan advocates our state legalizing weed….for the sake of our state budget, of course!
Extra Extra: We Liked It Better On George Michael's Shirt
Gov. Perry wants you to "choose life" (license plates). Speaking of Perry, as of tomorrow afternoon he will be Texas' longest serving governor ever. And he can run again in 2010! This morning's fog blamed for at least 75 area accidents. Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk to be named as US Trade Representative under Obama. More controversy in the Pedernales CoOp inquiry. Texas names its first Hispanic chief of the Texas Rangers; he's also the youngest ever. Caterpillar bringing a plant down to Seguin.
Genesis and Catastrophe
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” ...(but) F. Scott never met our president.
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