re: #44 freetoken

All your posts have convinced me to never go to Lubbock.

I don’t think you understand. Lubbuttock is, by definition, pretty much the definition of a municipal “Teachable Moment”.

Everyone should go there, once, for the “aha” factor.

Or Abilene. Don’t forget Abilene. Or Odessa. Or Midland. Or Abilene. Or Tyler. Or Amarillo.

It’s the victory of strip malls in urban architecture. With Pentecostal churches as tenants. It’s an awesome thing to see.

Once. Then you skedaddle back to Austin, get into a fetal position and thank your lucky stars that you don’t live anywhere else in this benighted State.

Don’t get me wrong! There are certainly areas, neighborhoods, within the Lone Star State that are are perfectly livable and fine, with lovely people and sane attitudes. But as noted in the local Friday Fishwrap that is the Austin American Statesman, Texans got their panties in a wad in 2015 over Jade Helm, a military exercise, after the Russians tested their Bot-net to see just how gullible Americans were to a disinformation campaign.

Egged on by Alex Jones, the Governor and the Light Governor bought into the scam, which included the rumor that basements of closed Wal-Marts would be used as prisons for gun-loving Americans.

Alex lived in the Zip code south of me for years, so Austin is not necessarily the Utopia that I like to paint. We all have our zits.