From Molly Ivins:
AUSTIN — Sinners of Texas, unite! We have nothing to lose but our vices! In case you hadn’t noticed, our only governor, Goodhair Perry, is fixing to tax the bejeezus out of us. It’s not as though the state’s topers, gamblers and smokers aren’t already putting in well more than our fair share. And do we get any recognition for it? Do we get any respect? We do not! All we get is a bunch of Baptists telling us we’re going to hell. As we lift our heavy glasses in bars from El Paso to Corpus, as we puff poison into our lungs from Amarillo to Laredo, nobly sacrificing our health for the sake of better education, we are despised and scorned. If it weren’t for sinners, this state would be broke already. Now the man wants to pile even more taxes on us. We have to draw the line somewhere: I want to make it clear that much as I support public education, I will not go to topless bars for the sake of the schoolchildren of Texas.