Their wonderful wasteland

In today's NYT, the first positive story I've ever seen about the Clear Lake area of suburban Houston, where I went to high school. Much is made of a couple of bars where NASA people hang out, but truth be told, the sailing angle is much more dominant in the minds of area residents, most of whom work in downtown Houston or anyplace besides NASA or one of its contractors. What the story doesn't talk about is the fact that the infamous Andrea Yates killings happened right there, as well as another mass muder that remains unsolved, plus the tabloid-ready Clara Harris case in which a woman intentionally ran down her husband as he was coming out of a hotel where he was seeing another woman. Yes, it's all sweetness and light in the Clear Lake area!