Waco is the hairy, sweaty armpit of Texas. It is a great place to get gas on the way to or from Dallas.

I'm sorry if I'm offending those from Waco.

Wat a minute. No I'm not. Waco sucks.

It is pretty bad, although there's more of a choice now than there was when I was at Baylor. Pretty much every date with those preppy-riffic Baylor boys involved the Olive Garden, because that was the only choice. Although the variety there sure beats what's available in this hellhole...

Look, God knows I am not sad at leaving Waco a few months ago after seven long years there. But Nate does make a valid point. Some of the White House press corps are whiny and ungrateful. I was around them in Crawford and Waco as a reporter and I didn't see any of them visibly suffering or dodging roadside bombs like their fellow correspondents in Baghdad. They eat really, really good catered meals at the Crawford school/press center which they will not share with visiting reporters. And quite a few of them are also in no immediate danger of dying from starvation. The people in Waco and Crawford bend over backwards to kiss the White House press corps' asses. They are getting to cover the White House for God sakes. Probably thousands of young journalism students would give their left wing ( that's a joke son) to have such a job.

waco is still and will always be the place where my (african-american) high school boyfriend's relatives said that the klansmen children of the university's president went trolling down I-35 looking to scare "the n-words". i recently drove through there on my way back home and noticed the disturbing proliferance of starbucks' "ladies and gentlemen, start your blinkers now" billboards. fuck them. culture, that is not.

It could be worse. Much worse. Remember what Waco was like before it had a Starbucks?

Although I must say, the visitor's center at the Texas Rangers Museum has the absolute BEST bathrooms between Austin and Dallas. We pee there every time we drive through.