[lbo-talk] The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth

[Jordan Hayes]

> How could a place like Texas, globally unsurpassed as a
> hotbed of anti-intellectualism, possibly possess enough
> school texts to fill a seven-story building as bulky as the
> Texas Schoolbook Depository?

I remember walking around Austin recently and seeing a huge multi-story 
building that takes up a whole block.  It's the Texas School Retirement 
System.  I thought to myself: shouldn't that just be a computer?

*shrug*

Everything, it seems, is bigger in Texas.

/jordan