According to the following articles, you don't have to be behind the wheel of a car, and you don't have to be disorderly to get arrested in a bar in Texas. Even if you have a designated driver, just being drunk is enough:

Texas cracking down on drunks in bars
Norm Peterson, Inmate #637821
Bar Sweep Sparks ControversyThis in the state that's the ( Read more... )

Dear Voting Majority of Texas:

You're a bunch of idiots, possibly in part because you don't know how to determine an appropriate valedictorian. I'll bet money this smart girl will leave your state as soon as possible ( Read more... )

I'd already heard about the Texas anti-gay measure from several sources, including Terrance (the story link is courtesy of his blog), but, well, apparently the first part made me angry enough that I didn't read the whole thing.

Tonight on CNN, I heard that not only will they be preventing gay and bisexuals from serving as foster parents, they are ( Read more... )

I'm too astonished and horrified to write much about this. Assuming we have any civil liberties left in ten years, I hope some of these children sue have a really stern talk with their parents for putting them through such a thing ( Read more... )