Houston Gals

A couple of wacky Houston gals in the news today. Anna Nicole Smith, famous for, well ... let's not go there. But she passed away suddenly at age '39' in somewhat mysterious circumstances. Then there was then NASA astronaut, Lisa Nowak, charged with attempted murder in one of the crazier schemes this side of MacGuyver.
So what is it about Houston? Most recently home to Enron, Exxon and Haliburton, George W. Bush and Andrea Yates. Is it something in the water? Perhaps Hunter S. Thompson had Houton's number back in his 2004 Rolling Stone article Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004:

Things haven't changed all that much where George W. Bush comes from. Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.