Texonomy

"Once it had Washington by the horns," writes Bryan Burrough in today's Washington Post. "But now the Lone Star State is done." Gushing with money from oil discovered there during the Great Depression, Texas has taken America on a wild political ride for the past 80 years or so. Until now. "The Bush administration's bonfire of the inanities has made being a Texan something you don't brag about," Burrough concludes, even though he's sure Texas will rise again. "I don't know when, and I don't know who, but it will." We'll see. Maybe Wall Street will be driven there next.