I was leaning toward "Wormtongue's long-lost great-great-great-great-granddaughter," personally.

I always thought of Ft Worth as a step-sister, but she's secretly better than Dallas anyway. ;D

Yeah, those Republican asshats hate coming here for a couple months every two years. I do my best to not be nice to them if I can.

What she continually is standing up for, and so strongly, just keeps reminding me of Ann - and I've been saying that we need a new Ann in this state since she passed. Long live Wendy, may her influence and awesomeness continue to affect positive change!

I clapped and yelled "Oh snap! He just got TOLD!", which echoed loudly through my little North Austin place & woke up my sick boyfriend.

Yeah, but that second time he "won" with a tiny bit more than 30% of the vote, because our state won't have a runoff system until a Dem gets in office with less-than-50%. Goddamn Texas GOP.

That might be the best description of it (at least when it comes to the fundie branch of the Southern Baptist Church I was raised in) that I've ever heard. In far more ways than I care to explain or remember.

Pardon me, I just need to breathe a moment after all that ROFLing.

My mom's been going on about The End Of The World since I was 12, and she still won't answer this question when I bring it up to her. Same thing goes for my "Why should I start a family? Why should I buy a house? Why should I save for retirement if the End Times are just going to come along anyway?"

NOM Facebook page freakouts, you say? Please tell me there are people trolling them, because if so...

Yeah, any small girl who is willing to go that hard on the rock scale and name songs things like "Zombie Skin" only fuels my ovaries' ever-increasing demands to be used.

No, I don't mean maliciously cruel. I meant "Oh! The feels!" "cruel." If they ever win, then that switches to "awesome" instantaneously. Totally my feelings here, not the ad itself.

Per the Texas Tribune Live Blog:

Yeah, "shady motherfuckers" could be the best description of the Texas GOP that ever was. They've been that way as long as I've been paying attention, and surprise-surprise, they still are today.

Any word on WTF just happened there? All my satellite-based clocks said 12:02, but it sounded like they were standing up at the podium voting.

This isn't her first filibuster rodeo, mind you - she did the same back a couple years ago to prevent $5bil in cuts to Texas Education. Since losing Ann, I've been in a funk, but she is reminding me so much of Ann that I'm literally crying with happiness for the fact that another strong, vociferous woman is willing…

Oh my dear god in heaven lord almighty, I hope you are right. Because when it comes to Texas politicians and their insistence to continually screw me over nearly all of my 30 years of life here (with the exception of Ann's beautiful term as gov), I just, I CAN'T.

I always assumed that Uncle Ruckus was loosely based on him.

Fiestaaaaa. (And yes, FWD does kinda suck, but whatever - if more people lean the other way, fine, more for me!)

Yeah, my friends moved up to Chicago and said traffic laws there are merely a loose suggestion, but everyone understands this and doesn't tend to get their panties in a twist when someone does something possibly nutty in front of you.