Will I have to self-deport?
It seems I may have to move after all. Texas, along with several other states, is petitioning the White House website to secede from the United States. Well, to be perfectly clear, it isn't Texas that is submitting the petition; it is about 64,000 particularly benighted Texans . And the truth is you could probably round up that many Texans to support most anything, and that is just another indictment of the educational system in this state. This particular action has gotten attention because the White House website rules indicate that if a petition has more than 25,000 signatures it requires a response. Even though equally benighted citizens in other states have sent in such petitions, apparently there aren't as many of them as there are in Texas so they haven't reached the 25,000 threshold. Once again Texas stands alone in its specialness. In this instance, even Rick Perry, who once floated the idea of secession , has distanced himself, releasing a statement to say that h...