Texas bloggers got together and picked their Texan of the Year. I probably would have picked someone different than State Rep. Carter Casteel. For one thing, I don’t have a clue who she is. I wouldn’t have known she was a she had I not read In the Pink or my old co-worker Nate’s Common Sense.
The crux of the biscuit, to paraphrase Frank Zappa, is that I suppose I have just given up on the Texas Legislature. I wrote them off two years ago during the redistricting fiasco and I think if when they meet they would all just go off and get drunk and do nothing our state government would be in much better shape. I can’t say much for the executive branch either except Gov. Rick’s got good hair and Lite Guv Dewhurst, well, I just don’t know about that dude.
So I guess the Texas Blogger choice was based on knowledge of what our state leaders are actually doing rather than the mean-spirited indifference I show toward our Texas governmental officials. So who would I have picked as Texan of the Year? I don’t know, there are a lot of choices: Kinky Friedman, Lance Armstrong, my perennial fave Willie Nelson, Dan Blocker (hey, it’s my choice, I can pick a dead Hoss if I want to). I am just not good at picking the something of the sometime.
If I have to absolutely positively pick someone as Texan of the Year I guess I’ll pick … Lady Bird Johnson. Why? She was the mother of roadside beautification (not to mention Luci Bird and Lynda Bird). She put up with that megalomaniac LBJ. And she is not dead yet (unlike Dan Blocker). So for 2005 Texan of the Year, I give you … da, da, da, daaaaaaaaaaa: Claudia Alta Taylor Lady Bird Johnson. Cheers Mrs. LBJ.