Buyer's Remorse

Is it too late to return Texas to Mexico? Can we get our money back? Will they take it back even if we don't have a receipt?

What the hell is going on in Texas? We get Lyndon Johnson (Viet Nam) and The George Bushes (Gulf War, Iraq, Wall Street, BP, Katrina, Abu Ghraib)

We get Rick Perry and The Dallas Cowboys and speaking of Dallas we get "Dallas" and Dealey Plaza.

But, to be fair, we also get Ann Richards and Molly Ivins and Bob Wills and Asleep at the Wheel.

But the pros hardly outweigh the cons.

Texas gives us arrogance and narrow-mindedness and medievality...

Why can't we progress into the 21st century? Why do we have to live in the past...the ancient past of superstition and discrimination and ignorance?

The recent changes in the Texas school curriculum requirements represent a head-in-the-sand approach that ignores the realities of the world in which we live. Do the board members who voted for the changes think for a minute that the information that is available in the Internet will not be available to the students they wish to influence?

We can continue to base our lifestyles in tired and outdated philospophies or we can step, willingly, into the present and see it as a prelude to the future and rejoice in knowing that progress offers hope.

Hope that we can change our ways.

Hope that we can grow and evolve.

Hope that things will ameliorate.

Hope that we can coexist amicably...even in a state of love.

Hope that we can continue to hope.

"It ain't over 'til it's over."

Gracias Yogi.

Gracias means thank you in Spanish, the official language of Texas...uh, Mexico...sorry.