Pass the Salt, Please

• Via skippy, the Texas Department of Transportation, faced with roads damaged by truck volume due to the oil boom, are planning to convert some of those roads to gravel and lower the speed limit.  No, really.

  “This is a safety issue,” Underwood said. “It’s not ‘our roads are bad and we’re not going to keep them up.’ It’s ‘our roads are bad and we’re trying to protect the driving public.’”

  Other states have weight limits and speed limits and enforcement.  But their roads are bad and they're not going to keep them up.
• Walk On presents a video of John Lewis speaking at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and discusses how right wingers claim a moral authority that they do not in fact possess.

  All of these outlets [listed in previous paragraph; Fox news, et al.] are opposed to the civil rights movement, opposed to what King stood for, opposed to one of the only living moral giants of American history, John Lewis.

• ETA:  Terrance Heath meditates on the journey between 1963 and the present.  With statistics.