The city of Sulphur Springs, in northeast Texas, is home to 15,500 brave souls.

They have more Baptist Churches than cattle, which I suspect is because in Sulphur Springs not many people get along with each other, especially the Baptist.  A quick Goggle search finds 8 Baptist churches in Sulphur Springs.

And that doesn’t even count the Pentecostals, the Free Will Assemblies, and the little known Sisterhood of Saintly Finger Waggers.

Sulphur Springs is about 70% white and votes 70% Republican.

Sulphur Springs got itself national attention this week.  Not for its low school taxes or the fact Goodwill Industries is listed as one of the major employers in the city.

Nope, Sulphur Springs got on national news for spending $54,000 on a potta potty.  A glass porta potty, with one-way mirrors.

In all fairness, I will admit that Sulphur Springs ain’t no damn prissy art mecca or nothing.  But ….

They were modeled after Italian artist, Monica Bonivicini’s art piece – ‘Don’t Miss A Sec’ from 2004, which was located outside an art museum in Switzerland.

Sounds kinda prissy to me.

I don’t known any decent self-respecting Baptist lady willing to bare her butt right in front of God and the town drunk on the theory that she can’t be seen. But, the guys in Sulphur Springs have that all figured out.

For those residents concerned with safety due to the new restrooms, there are several cameras on the square watching everything that’s going on, said Maxwell.

In a related story, the Chamber of Commerce announced that Hunka Humpin’ Adult Movies, the country’s largest amateur movie producer, has leased space in downtown Sulphur Springs.

Thanks to Carol for the heads up.

Y’all, Mitt Romney ended up as part of the 47%.

God does, indeed, have a sense of humor.

Thanks to Fernando for the heads up.

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Well, the Texas Lege opens next month and nobody in Texas is safe while they are in session, especially women, children, minorities, the poor, the handicapped, the gay, the elderly, or the lame.  The only safe people are white men and their right to be total jerks just because they can be.

Allow me to introduce to you State Rep Dan Flynn.  Dan’s got 99 problems but the one that matters is that there are not enough of the Ten Commandments in Texas classrooms.

House Bill 51 would modify the Texas Education Code, specifying that “the board of trustees of an independent school district may not prohibit the posting of a copy of the Ten Commandments in a prominent location in a district classroom.”

I don’t know what he means by prominent.

Now, I haven’t heard any big uproar over the Ten Commandments being in classrooms one way or the other, but I am going to ask my State Rep to add an amendment to HB51 saying that if the Ten Commandments are posted, so must be a picture of the President of the United Damn States of America.

That’ll end that right there.

I do not know if you are aware of this, but in 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that Texas could put the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the State Capitol but the also struck down the posting of the commandments in county courthouses in Kentucky.  That  means that even the Supreme Court acknowledges that the best of the Texas Lege needs divine guidance in their behavior more than  the worst judge in Kentucky.   Sad, ain’t it?

Thanks to Mary for the heads up.

If there is a vacuum of leadership anywhere, it has to the anti-disabled people caucus.

Up steps Rick Santorum!   Praise the Lord and defeat the legislation.

President-unelect Rick Santorum made his triumphant return to the Capitol on Monday afternoon and took up a brave new cause: He is opposing disabled people.

Specifically, Santorum, joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), declared his wish that the Senate reject the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities — a human rights treaty negotiated during George W. Bush’s administration and ratified by 126 nations, including China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Santorum is convinced this human rights treaty will destroy the sovereignty of the United States.

Bringing his child Bella into the hearing (and who doesn’t think using your disabled child as a prop is a very cool thing to do?), Santorum ranted against the treaty because it would “open up a Pandora’s box for the most vulnerable among us: children with disabilities.”  He, of course, lost his tongue when it came time to explain how that would happen.

You gotta admire a man who has dedicated his life to being contentious and paranoid, and then spreading it across the land.

Thanks to Elizabeth for the heads up.

I’m not a fan of Joe Scarborough.  He’s a ton smug for my taste and I think they gave him the morning show because Joe’s pretty sure that the sun comes up just to hear him crow.

Yesterday, he went on teevee and made a pile of silly.

On Monday morning, Joe Scarborough was a bit confused. After paying a visit to “the Twitter” over the weekend, he found himself asking: Why are liberals still so angry about everything?

“I went on the Twitter this weekend to talking football,” Scarborough informed, leading to his subsequent question. “Why are liberals still so angry on the Twitter? I say, you won!”

Asked what they’re angry about, Scarborough replied, “They are angry about everything.”

Please somebody tell Joe that we’re gloating and that make HIM angry.  He’s got those emotion things all confused.

Oh yeah, that’s us wanting to secede and buying up guns and saying we were bought off and foaming at the mouth about Susan Rice.

Holy cow, the man is as confused as a goat on Astroturf.

I went to see Lincoln.  For some reason, Cinemark is not showing it so I had to go to the big city to see it.

I’m completely delighted that I did.  And I plan on doing it again because I was so taken by the cinematography, acting, and music that I am completely certain that I missed some dialogue.  It is a gorgeous, delicate, and profound movie.

I won’t spoil it for you by telling you the end.

I have one small peevish complaint.  The movie left me hungry for more history.  I haven’t read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book so I wondered if, in fact, Thaddeus Stevens had a black mistress.  El Jefe Bob found the answer for me this morning.  I know you can’t put everything in a movie, but I kinda wish they had portrayed Lydia Hamilton as a strong intelligent businesswoman and partner rather than just a mistress.  I just ordered Goodwin’s book for my Nook.

Go see it.  At the end of the movie people in the theater gave it a standing ovation and sat back down to watch the credits as to honor the people who made this movie.  I’ve never seen that before.