It's too bad because I really liked Buc-ee's. Texas has a strong road trip culture, and it was nice to enjoy that before America started going to shit.

Looks like Cookie Monster.

I can't wait for my kids to finally stop pointing them out and saying, "Dad, there's that car you hate."

But it also has to have tight controls. Failure has to be the player's fault. That's the defining characteristic.

Not true. My mother-in-law refuses to talk about politics with me, but from what I can gather she didn't vote for Paxton, because he's ugly.

Almost every day for the last ten years, I've woken up sad about living in Texas. It's a feeling that's pervasive and oppressive, when your home is just wrong.

The best I'd ever hoped for is that one day Texas might get one thing right in the middle of all its bad decisions, but that's not what happened. Texas is fucking blue. So I'm having a great week.

If they believe that then they should vote for Republicans.

If they don't vote for Republicans, then their non-voting stance was actually either cowardice or laziness.

I'm relieved he conceded. That's as much credit as he deserves.

We were out trick or treating with our kids, but this is the first year we returned and someone hadn't emptied the bowl we left out. Maybe because we're at the end of our cul-de-sac and didn't have any decorations up this year.

Halfway through LOST, the show runners cut the episode count in half, because they didn't like all the filler they had to include in season 3.

Love Massive Attack. Mine is Paradise Circus, by them. Every note is so perfect it's like I can't even imagine how a person gets to creating a song like that.

Ooh, I love s'mores.