How to be a brown nose.

Remember when you were in junior high school and someone who was always trying to incur favor with the teachers and the administration was called a brown nose.  They would do the stupidest things just to get recognition for being a goody-goody.  Remember them.

Well in the Texas legislature we have a big brown nose. Dan Branch. To incur favor with the Texas GOP he has once again done something terribly stupid. He has gotten a piece of legislation passed to name seven miles of  U.S. 75 "Central Expressway" after George W. Bush.

Now I don’t mind that SMU has put the W's library on campus. I have never been a big fan of that school. So, if they want to celebrate a man that led us into an illegal war, a man now considered in over 100 countries as a war criminal, a man that all but single-handedly drove our country into financial ruin with sophomoric economic policies, so be it. But don’t force us to pay our respects by calling Central Expressway ‘The Bush.’

Besides, we already have a Bush expressway in Dallas. His dad's road up north circles the perimeter of the city. President George Bush toll way. Now we're going to have two of them. How confusing is that going to be? "It's just off the Bush."  "Which one?" "The one that runs north and south, not the east and west one." "Oh."

Ridiculous, Mr. Branch. We didn't ask for it. We don’t want it. Now go away and wipe that brown stuff off your nose.

It's bad enough that Mayor Mike Rawlings pulled a fast one on Dallas and named the Convention Center after former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson without so much as a public discourse on the matter. (Where was Angela Hunt when we needed her?) Dallas is good about flashing names around on roads and buildings and bridges. Too bad we can't name things after people here in Dallas who actually do some good. I move we change the name of Knox-Henderson to Avenue of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The perfect exit off the new Bush Expressway.