VFYW: The Problem In Houston

For contest #264, we head to "the Axis of Evil of Corporate America," as one reader puts it.

A reader suggests that I may have possibly sorta went easy on you this week:

Oh s-u-u-u-r-r-r-e, trying to make up for last week, when you were single-handedly responsible for an appreciable dip in the GDP for everyone trying to locate what looks to be a wide spot in the road somewhere between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. I actually tooled around…