Leading Off

1. Texas’ abstinence-only teaching programs sure are working! In unrelated news, Texas leads the nation in teen birth rates.

2. It sounds like the songs on the iPods given to kids in Grand Prairie schools are more educational than the ones you’ll find on mine. Although is any song really more thought-provoking than Pink’s “U + Ur Hand”?

3. Texas A&M is the best university in the country, according to Washington Monthly, the best city magazine in the universe.