I am not making this up, nor is it from the Onion. This is from today’s* Thursday’s Houston Chronicle. Thoughtful of them to run this just days before Christmas don’t ya think, when everybody is attending so closely to the news?

Texans seeking to escape the next hurricane or state emergency by evacuation bus will first be submitted to criminal background checks, the state’s emergency management director says.

Does this sound, um, what to pick first, a tad complicated logistically speaking?  Read more