When I read waste-of-time op-eds about state secession, it really gets my goat to see that some people in this country actually still take this stuff seriously. That they think they can pander misnomers about their state as though, insultingly, everyone is to believe their locally socialized propaganda. To the select few out there who whine about seceding away from the government reps they themselves vote into office and to those who are too lazy or too incompetent to go to our centers of power in this country to at least try to make a difference themselves, why don't you, instead, shed the rock you grew up living under in your little isolationist camps. I'm from Texas and moved out a while back for business. When you come to realize like I did that the rest of the nation isn't talking about nor reliant on Tx for much of anything, maybe then you'll stop with the irrational bravado that reinforces and perpetuates negative stereotypes about you. Every state is doing their part without the flurry of over compensating, socially inept rantings of home-grown bravado. Why can't the members of the Rick Perry Taliban Republic do so also. PLEASE STOP MESSING UP TEXAS FOR THE REST OF US. PLEASE STOP MESSING UP THE GOP WITH YOUR UNIBOMBER MENTALITIES.