Category Archives: Current Events

The rare external event worth commenting upon

Breaking radio silence

In which our Intrepid Hero catches everyone up on the last five months of silence. Continue reading

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We’ve been burglarized

Sometime in the last hour and a half. Continue reading

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I aten’t dead

Although it seems like half the state is afire, the bit of it that contains me and mine isn’t so. Continue reading

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2010 Texas Book Festival

I was sorry to have to miss Saturday, but getting to see the session for the football field book was a good consolation. Continue reading

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More connected to the plane crash than I thought

I was startled to read that someone L and I have known for years escaped being killed by the skin of his teeth. Continue reading

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My last about money

One thing is sure until there are rich again everybody will be poor and there will be more than ever of everybody who is even poorer. Continue reading

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All about money

Men can count, and they do, and that is what makes them have money. Continue reading

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Still more about money

One of the funny things is that when there is great deal of unemployment you can never get any one to do any work. Continue reading

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More about money

When the parliament was invented by England long ago it was mostly done to keep the king from spending too much money. Continue reading

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Money

Is money money or isn’t money money. Continue reading

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