I kid you not — check out the last four paragraphs on this page. I can already hear the conspiracy theorists, can’t you? Gov. Minority’s Trans-Texas highway, the thing I’m not writing about. … Hmmm.

I mention this because I won’t be around for the next week or so; I’ll be in Alaska on assignment for the Texas AAA magazine (which, as one of our commenters noted this spring, is my true forte, and not this silly political writing). The miracle of technology has allowed me to make some posts ahead of time; otherwise, you’ll have to wait until after Labor Day to read my whining.

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And who knows? Perhaps, relaxed and refreshed, I can attack our favorite subject once again.