Lew, your post made me think of a comment I heard this week from David Leebron, the President of Rice University here in Houston, during his speech at the Center for Houston’s Future. Leebron, who’s originally from Philadelphia and worked and lived in New York for some time, said that he’s been asked many times how it was to move from New York to Houston. His answer to them is: New York and Houston have a lot in common: both are very dynamic; both are very diverse; in both, nobody cares where you are from, or how or when you got there.

The difference is, in Houston, they’re actually glad you’re here.

The Best of Stephan Kinsella

Compare Kuralt with Harvey Weinstein, who argues that his Tarantino-Rodriguez film Grindstone flopped because of poor marketing to the rubes: “We didn’t educate the South and the Midwest.” (Link via Drudge)