I do, however, want to apologize to my good, smart, kind and able friends throughout Texas, of which I have at last count four, including Jed Marum, whom I did not consult but counted anyway. Although I chose a slanderous exaggeration as the title for this thread, it was merely as a rhetorical device, intended to stir up unthinking emotions of disgust -- antipathy on a completely stimulus-response basis. But not against Texas, merely against those few mentioned in the article. I hope I can be forgiven for anyone I may have sprayed while painting with too broad a brush.

Amos