License Plates into Musical Instruments

YAY TEXAS!

Governor Abbott with the new license plate.

So if, like me, you want to support music in schools, all you gotta do (at least in Texas!) is buy a license plate! $22.00 of the $30.00 price tag goes directly to buy instruments for schools. How cool is that? Don't you wish you lived here? It's already the best place for lots of things and I hope it becomes the best place for music in schools, too. Read more about it here.

Photo via Office of Gov. Greg Abbott

At It Again

So Dan Patrick, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, gets into trouble with his tweeting...  Just as last October, when Gov. Abbott congratulated the Astros on their "win" over Kansas City, his ill-timed tweet a couple hours after the massacre in Orlando shows how out of touch he is. What is it with these guys? His excuse is that this post, a Bible verse, was chosen the previous Thursday. I don't know about you, but as an American citizen I kinda don't want to have an elected official posting Bible verses in the first place, regardless whether it's appropriate or not to the day's events. Why is no one asking about his beliefs on the separation of church and state as outlined in the constitution? Am I missing something here? As a transplant to the Lone Star State I am thinking I just don't understand the Texas mindset. I don't know. I am living in Michigan now and we have a governor who thinks calling himself a Nerd makes it acceptable for him not to take responsibility or show that he cares about the people of Flint, MI, who have had to deal with lead in the drinking water here and other, lesser indignities, to put it mildly, for an interminably long time. I mean, can you believe a governor who thinks getting a bottle of water to drink from a bar in Flint is actually going to mean anything? Ugh. The insensitivity and lack of awareness is ming-boggling, as is the self-aggrandizement on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.

Wow. Texas has a reputation of being independent, arrogant, and free. But yet, it seems, some are freer than others. Full disclosure: I don't live in Texas anymore, Toto, but that doesn't mean it won't happen again. Here's the latest installment in the freakshow that is Texas politics:

“A Woman’s Job Is To Be At Home”

Check it out before you get all excited about how awesome it is there. It gives the phrase " home on the range" a whole new meaning...