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joe817 wrote:TAM, as much as I'd like to read the article tonight, I'm afraid I might have to grab my hatchet, find the first wooden crate of tea I could find, smash it and throw it into the Trinity River.

"This made the tea unsuitable for drinking. Even for Americans."

For those of you that have read Chris Hernandez's book, "Line In The Valley", you'll note that the book seems to end with Texas on the brink of secession. Chris' novel didn't end in the typical denoument that you find in many novels. The war hero protagonist in the book, whose unit had managed to defeat a (plausibly-written) Mexican cartel/Islamic terrorist incursion at the border of Texas, was still shattered by the losses his close-knit unit took and a massively-ungrateful US government, who was on the brink of punishing him and his unit for their actions (interestingly - Chris' story involves a VERY bad decision made by his team, so his characters don't stand out in stark good vs evil, they stand out as human beings under enormous warfighting pressure to get things done, and that doesn't always equal making smart decisions, especially politically-correct ones). The book definitely ended with a much larger confrontation brewing, and changed the tone of the book.