Who Do You Nominate for the Bum Steer Award?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 12:12PM They say you can always tell a Texan, but you can't tell them very much. Or at least some have said that about me.
Though I've been away from the state of my birth for almost as many years as I lived there, I have continued to subscribe to the Texas Monthly wherever life has taken me. It's a great magazine in general, but I especially look forward to their annual "Bum Steer" awards, in which they skewer the high, the low, and the absurd. The intro to the just published 2010 awards reads, in TM's typically diffident (and alphabetical) fashion:
It was a year of accomplice apes, bedraggled Bugattis, Christlike Cheetos, dim-witted deli-owning Democrats, egregious errata, fatal foreplay, gun-toting golfers, heartless high school hoopsters, ignoble implants, jackass judges, killer Kims, laughingstock legislators...shameless Stanford, territorial T-Boone, useful urine, vituperative vixens...and zero tolerance zealots.
Since my son lives in the former Sugar Land congressional district--arguably the most conservative in the nation--of the #1 Bum Steer, I cannot resist sharing the cover with you. Get your barfbags out, Ladies and Laddies. It doesn't get any "bummer" than this, but who else would you place on your bum steer list if you were doing the choosing?
Reader Comments (4)
Poor John Travolta. When he donated his disco suit to the National Clueless Charity, he did not anticipate that such a buffoon would besmirch it.
Ha, Sue, very funny.
I am having trouble deciding which of the members of Congress I'd like to nominate right now. So many choices, so many worthy honorees!
Frankly, we were worried. Could such a depressingly serious season produce a worthy Bum Steer?Thank God that’s over.
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