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Cocktail Club Tuxedo Cocktail #2.
Approved.
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Jonah Goldberg on certain political types He … [thought] the hand of the state needed simply to impose efficiencies the political process was too dumb, lazy, or corrupt to impose. He wanted a libertarian monarch or national CEO of sorts to cut through the red tape and the political dysfunction.
Nothing in my experience or learning suggests that God (or nature, for that matter) cares anything about efficiency.
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“Let Phil sing!” - RIP Phil Lesh … his lack of experience allowed him to rethink the role of the bass in rock music, drawing inspiration from the harmonics found in works he loved by Bach and the jazz bassist Charles Mingus. NYTimes, 25 Oct 2024
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The military may have to make decisions … the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics… it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military…
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Milestone It’s a big day in a boy’s life when he gets his very own Medicare card.
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Texas Harvest It never seems like it in August, but there are upsides to gardening in a hot state.
Sun Gold cherry tomatoes
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Urgh Possible book plate for ““Ex Libris Jim Rain”; I like it, but I’m creeped out that it’s AI generated from a prompt I gave. (Esp. because my daughter is an illustrator. What does this bode for her?)
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Ya' Got Me I’ve become convinced that this election isn’t really about Harris and Trump. But I haven’t figured out what, exactly, it is about. (I mean, I know what it’s about for Trump, but I don’t know about Trump voters. Or the country.)
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What Makes a Good Citizen? Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts creator):
Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call “American Virtues” who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.
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What’s the Problem? … you might conclude that this country has a leadership problem. But it doesn’t. This country has a citizenship problem.
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I Love Astertide 
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Morning Has Broken 
(That’s Jupiter, I think.)
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