Thursday, August 23, 2012

Speaking of Local Politics

Our theme for this week's episode is Loose Talk From People Who Goddamn Well Should Know Better, and we begin down in the great state of Texas, where, against all conceivable odds, our subject is not Governor Rick Perry. Rather, we turn our attention to Lubbock, birthplace of Buddy Holly, where local judge Tom Head got on the electric teevee machine and untethered himself from planet Earth: [video embedded]

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Head would have listeners believe that they must agree to increase Lubbock's property tax rate by 1.7 cents in the next fiscal year, or risk being forced to submit to a foreign occupying force invited into the nation by the president of the United States.


Charlie Pierce
 
It just might work.

Charlie continues that post with some other totally asinine happenings around the country (generally in the southern half of it) which make me glad to have my school years, and those of my children, way behind me. Jeez. An untethering from planet earth might not be such a terrible thing.

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