[texgal]

People raised in the south are generally taught to be genteel. Men still open doors for ladies down here and the ladies say "thank you". The folks at the NYT should give some plain old good manners a try. It might make those lumps of blackened coal they call hearts soften.

By the way, glad you decided to make Houston your home. As some folks down here say, "I wasn't born a Texan but I got there as fast as I could!"

[daybreakcoming]

By the way, glad you decided to make Houston your home.

See? That's what I'm talkin about. :o)

We moved here to God Bless Texas country about ten years ago from south Louisiana and while I love Louisianians, I'll never move back. I'd rather be here helping the evacuees than being one of Blanco and Nagin's evacuees..