Texas Is The Worst At Graduating High School While Washington Is The Worst At Not Loving One Specific Canadian

Last night I came upon a scientific study on something called Thrillist which listed what each state in the American union is worst at.

Apparently Kansas has the ugliest scenery. Arizona is the worst at going to the dentist. Idaho has the worst drivers. New York is the worst to be a taxpayer. Oklahoma has the worst produce consumption. California has the most polluted cities. Utah is the nerdiest. North Dakota has the fewest visitors. Ohio has the worst water. Maryland is the worst at incarcerating the elderly.

Those are a sampling of the worst ats. You can click the above link to see what all the states are worst at.

And then there is Texas. As you can see above, Texas has the fewest high school graduates per capita. What a shock. Was the Texas education system in better shape back in the days when the state elected people like Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Barbara Jordan and Anne Richards?

And then there is what my old home state of Washington is worst at.  Washington is worse than any other state at something quite serious.

Worst at loving Justin Bieber.

How did Thrillist find out about the Washingtonian disdain for Justin Bieber?  Is Mr. Bieber being Canadian a bigger strike against him in Washington than in the other northern border states? Many people do grow up in Washington finding the Canadians to be a bit annoying....

June Begins With A Red Sky Morning

The 1st day of June has dawned with a red tinted sky.

On the west coast a sailor would take a red sky in the morning as a warning. I have no idea what a sailor does with a red sky in the morning when he's hundreds of miles from the nearest coast.

Reading the news this morning only a few things stuck in my memory.

One is that today is Marilyn Monroe's birthday. Had Marilyn not died in 1962, today she would be 85 years old. An 85 year old Marilyn Monroe would have been an interesting thing to see.

An amusing line from an article in the Star-Telegram about Fort Worth's droopy drawers epidemic...

"Residents who try to board a bus while exposing their rumps can expect to get bumped."

The Fort Worth Transit Authority has a new dress code which allows bus drivers to refuse entry to those with pants sagging below their waist.

Meanwhile, yesterday, up in Seattle at the University of Washington, hundreds of students stripped to their underwear in some sort of charity run that donated the doffed clothes to those who are in need of clothes.

I don't remember seeing anyone with droopy drawers in the Seattle zone. They are slow to catch on to trends up there. I may have that backwards.

Yesterday that little Canadian kid who is inexplicably an international pop star, Justin Bieber, along with his girl friend, an older woman named Selena Gomez, went to Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington and the Parks at Arlington Mall.

Apparently the Gomez girl is from Grand Prairie and she was taking her underage, 17 year old, boyfriend home to meet the family.

It is now time to continue on with my casual lifestyle and go swimming.