THE STATE OF TEXAS THESE DAYS

From an email this morning from a fellow writer living in Texas.

"We had 72 days of 100+ heat this year and while we had a big thunder/lightning/rain storm two nights ago, the drought continues in Texas. Locally grown crops like fruit and vegetables have been destroyed and produce shipped in from other places is better looking and cheaper. Our idiot governor is running for President and so is spending even less time here taking care of business. Texas lost three and a half million acres of land to wild fires this year, half the national total. There is a huge budget deficit but the politicians won't touch the rainy day fund; instead, they cut four billion dollars from the education system. Some parents will have to pay as much as $1,000 a school year for bus service for their kids but the oil companies can keep their huge tax credits and deductions. Of course. How else would they be able to afford to buy the state politicians? I guess I'm just not constitutionally suited to be a cowgirl."