Why Dallas rules, from D Magazine:

• #1 Because We Have Manners
• #6 Because we protect the rights of humans
• #8-47 Because These People Once Called Dallas Home
• #49 Because the quarterback for America’s Team is also the world’s greatest $30,000 millionaire
• #51 Because We Invented the Perfect Summer Drink: The Frozen Margarita
• #52 Because Making $47,000 a Year Here Is Like Making $143,269 in Manhattan
• #54 Because we get things done
• #55-59 Because one of these girls could one day be an Olympic medalist
• #60-62 Because We Have the Most Interesting Sports Owners in the Country
• #64 Because we’re a hotbed for Puritanism but we do love our sin
• #67 Because Jack Kilby invented the future
• #68 Because we yell “Stars!” during the National Anthem
• #91 And because Kelly Clarkson is still the greatest American Idol
• #92 Because NorthPark is…
• #99 Because We’re Such a Demanding Sports Town That We Don’t Fully Appreciate the Fact that We Are All Nowitznesses
• #101 Because we love our dogs more than ourselves
• #109 Because Some Things Really Are Bigger Here
• #116 Because only someone from Dallas could be left for dead in a blizzard on the side of Mount Everest and survive
• #119 Because We Love Our Skyline at Night