I’m starting to wonder whether I should break-up with the State of Texas. She’s so awesome in so many ways, but she keeps doing crazy, self-destructive things that grab national headlines and sicken my heart. I always take her back, make her some tomato soup and grilled cheese, and convince myself that this time she’s changing. And we’ll have a few quiet months, but then she will do some new, awful thing, like changing school curriculum to make dumb the new smart, or passing the “up yours, women” law. I probably should have moved on way back during that whole cheerleader mom thing. But damnit, I love her.