I’ll be leaving Lubbock in a couple of weeks. I can’t say I will miss it.

I am tempted to equip my robber-baron car with drunk-sighting staffs on the fenders, jackboot scrapers on the door sills, a brush guard (ie cowcatcher) on the grill, and a selection of gay pride, pro-Obama, and anti-fundy stickers so I can cruise around and say goodbye in style. I considered a remote control catapult to hurl cowpies at tailgating pickups, but that would mean cutting the trunk lid. A high pressure furnace and spray nozzle to distribute roiling clouds of marijuana smoke would be ideal but it’s unfortunately illegal. Otoh, judging by what I see on the streets here, trying to run people down and force them off the road is perfectly legal (I’ve never seen anyone arrested for it at any rate).