Plano shout out

Sheila Sarem, who works at a language school in Paris, falls into the second camp. In 2003, fresh out of the University of Denver, she knocked on doors for Howard Dean in her hometown, the affluent Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas. Plano is the sort of place, she said, where it's considered something of a bummer to get a second-hand car for your 16th birthday. In 2000, Plano residents voted for Bush. -- from Hunting for Republicans in Paris [Slate.com]

*I've been seeing ads for the new Cowboys stadium that they are proposing in Arlington. I've already seen protestors ... protesting about the probable raise in taxes to pay for the stadium.