Here it is: The best America’s got, in all its sprawling glory.

So Forbes came out with a list of the coolest cities to live in America and topping the list was … Houston. You know, that city with a bunch of irate residents because people keep moving there for the scene. What’s that, I’m not talking about Houston at all? A listicle with a counterintuitive No. 1 (and 2: Washington, DC) is obvious and sad linkbait. Here I am talking about it, so sadly you can consider us baited, but when you write an article about cool places to live and include a dictionary definition of cool, well, you aren’t cool. Same thing if you’re trying to quantify coolness with graphs and charts and instruments of arithmetic instead of just looking around. (more…)