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We are back from our weekend. A few quick observations.

*First night had dinner at an amazing Taos restaurant. I have tried to eat there before, but the wait was always a problem. Waited outside with a nice couple from South Carolina and then another couple from Denver. The first two were both women and watching them with each other was nice. Hard to observe people who clearly love each other that much and dismiss their experience. Anymore than the second couple who were straight. South Caroline must be a tough place to be gay.

*Texas sucks. During our day and a half in Taos, we ran into several people from Texas and they all annoyed us. (Sorry KL!:)
One of the guests at our B&B wore a UT sweatshirt to breakfast this morning. I made an OU joke, one that acknowledged that they had a better bowl season--she was still a bitch. UT sucks. One nearly ran us off the road pulling his snowmobiles. How obnoxious is that? Snowmobiles are obnoxious to begin with, and then towing them from Texas? Suck.

*Taos is amazing. Great ski hill and really nice town.

*New Mexico still has many racist elements. The entire I-40 drive showed us great old Native American symbols (used to sell trinkets and hats) like, Running Indian (complete with headdress and tomahawk). Horrible. Of course, given that Ann Coulter (tolerated by good Republicans everywhere) wrote an anti-Ward Churchill essay entitled "Little Injun that could", we should not be that surprised. Think of all the analogous references for African Americans or Jews or Italians and then ask if those would be used in a column. Native Americans aren't mascots or punching bags--they are people. I wish that Ann Coulter was.

*Still a great trip. Met some really nice people. Glad to be back.