All posts tagged "College Station"

I'm sure you've heard the story by now of Abby Johnson, the director of the Planned Parenthood in Bryan, TX (outside of College Station, where Texas A&M is located), who had a sudden change of heart and now works for the Coalition for Life. Her story is full of holes, and I deal with those holes here.

PZ posted a radio poll of College Station, TX that asked if you would let your kids hear President Obama speak. Texans in the audience will be utterly non-surprised to discover that the poll indicates that College Station is a cesspool of wingnuttery. But I was sad to see PZ slam the whole state as unpatriotic. (SNIFF) Okay, I've pointed out in the past that we are controlled largely by batshit crazy wingnuts, and ignoring that or telling fairy tells about how they're our neighbors we need to persuade is a waste of time. But we're not all College Station! That's the home of Texas A&M, known by Austinites as the Land of the Mouth-Breathers. There are more flies caught per capita at A&M than anywhere in the country. That Nixon-esque wingnutty resentment of those perceived as being open-minded and sophisticated that Rick Perlstein explained so well in Nixonland not only thrives at A&M, but it's actually encouraged by the school culture. They're the Orthogonians to UT Austin's Frankins. They're the Sarah Palins to UT's Barack Obamas. They're Nixon to our Kennedys. Even their fight song is....about UT, at least a huge part of it.