He had the wan face of a farmer in calving season, eyes small from lack of sleep and close encounters with viscera.
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Currently reading. And enjoying.
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A Half-Dozen Feel-Good Movies Feel like sharing some of yours?
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Presented without comment (because none is needed) to my fellow Texas voters: From the WSJ:
Elon Musk Pours a Fortune Into Saving Texas for Republicans The world’s richest man donated $158 million to an effort backing state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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At the State Fair Can you guess which state? It’s a toughie.
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Retirement Day + 10 months - At first, you still wake up thinking, “What do I have to do today?” Followed by the nice realization: “I don’t have to do ANYTHING today!”
- Eventually, though, there’s the even better wake-up thought: “What do I GET to do today?”
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How surprising. From the Texas Tribune:
Since assuming office in 2015, Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million….
Records detailing the purpose of Paxton’s visits to 36 states and 19 countries do not appear to exist in most cases. These include a trip to a small town in Hawaii months before his family’s blind trust bought land there; 24 trips to Utah, where the trust owns five properties; and 53 trips to Florida, where Paxton and the trust have two houses and a townhome.
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Moonrise at Sunrise 
08 Oct 2026
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Reminds me of elections in a Trollope novel Per CNBC:
The Trump administration began sending $500 refunds1 on Wednesday to more than 950,000 Obamacare enrollees… Recipients are largely those earning more than 400% of the federal poverty line…
1Not really a refund; just a payment dictated by the WH.
In other words, a bribe to many folks who don’t need the money.
He’s also sending $90 checks to 20 million folks on Medicare. “Not eligible are … millions of … people with disabilities and low-income[s].”
When that $90 comes in, I’m sending it straight to the Talarico campaign.
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Gilead I finished reading Marilyn Robinson’s Gilead. I have tons of thoughts about this wonderful novel, but they’re jumbled. For now, I think I’ll leave them that way. It’s wiser simply to be with this book for a while than to dissect it.
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