WITHOUT EVEN THE GOOD INTENTIONS: Jenny, the "Texan in diaspora" of Little Red Cookbook, points out next week's rally in Austin against Perry's pork barrel tollroads and the swath of destruction they would bring to this state,

built by foreign contractors (a seeming reward for the participation of Spain in the Iraq War)? ...

Meanwhile, at least twenty County Commissioner's Courts have declared their opposition to the corridor project (props to Wharton and Fayette counties, my ancestral homes), as have the Texas Farm Bureau and civic groups across the state. Now is the time to let your voice be heard on this issue.

Read it all at Protesting the "highway to hell".