I can’t tell you, John,

whether the cat/rocking chair saying originates here in the Lone Star state,

but they do have some colorful expressions here. My father-in-law observes,

on the occasion of a summer gullywasher, that “it’s rainin’ like a cow

pissin’ on a flat rock.” Isn’t that great?

By the way, the Absolutely True Adventures of the Cross-Dressing Texas

Republican continue.

Sam Walls may be a cross-dresser, some Republicans in his rural district

say, but he’s a pillar of the church and the community, and nobody’s seen

him liquored up. And dadgummit, he ain’t a queer (in fact, he appears to

have been the treasurer of a national society for heterosexual

cross-dressers). This is one of the most conservative districts in the whole

state, and it includes a town where a woman is facing prosecution for

selling sex toys. Texas is an interesting place.