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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. Fever in the Heartland was good, but didn't go where I thought it was going to go. Interested to see what you think.
  2. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Caey Cep (2019) (Audio) I was really impressed with this book. It goes off in different directions and is sort of like four different long New Yorker articles all mashed together. But the writing is so swift and spare that the story just moves along. It's just a good read/listen. The idea of her publishers pushing for To Kill a Mockingbird over her finishing Go Set a Watchman - set years after To Kill a Mockingbird with an older and more problematic Atticus is something I never knew of but is a perfect reflection of the race politics of our own time.
  3. Saw him a couple of times riding a bike (looked very wobbley) near the Stanford Law School long, long ago. I always appreciated his strangeness and he could crack me up sometimes.
  4. Stoked. Let's do this.
  5. Oh yes... Coldman. The "d" is silent in America. It's Cole D'Isle au Man, or Cole of the Isle of Man, in France, where the kid's chateau is, Cold-e-man in Greece where Papa Coleman's work is, and finally the vulgar Coleman in Texas where the home is is.
  6. That's a random as fuck group of teams to root for.
  7. I'm not saying you need to pick up your game in terms of restaurants and hotels but have you recently been compelled to go into low company?
  8. Good old man books: The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler (not sure why this is one of my favorite books - just very old school style story, but the way he looks back on his life was very affecting) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Cormac McCarthy (no way she was 23 - pure southern gothic, lots of sad wisdom) Train Dreams - Denis Johnson (this was frighteningly depressing - novella)
  9. Finally saw it. Underwhelmed on the whole. Loved the family dynamic. Ended with about 3/4 of the story I wanted to see still left. I guess I get the irony of the stupidity of the white literary types as part of the theme of the movie but it could have been lots funnier/interesting if they had been given just a bit of intelligence.
  10. Well what's your issue then? Is it because he's unknown or he's running the wrong kind of campaign. I mean, I'd see some advantages to him being an actor or a rock star with instant name recognition, but the Dems don't have the balls to do that. I just don't see any advantage in him pretending he's a firebrand progressive, because he isn't, and that's not going to be a big advantage over him just being himself.
  11. I think there is a decent argument that no strategy for any Dem is going to work statewide but a low key one for a black athlete is better than most.
  12. Completely untrue. Unless you are just assuming that the only "tough"policy is a Trump policy. Colin's doing a straight up "moderate suburban" strategy that won him his seat and has basically been very successful throughout the US. I think Gaza has really made things difficult but Biden would be a lot stronger if he had slow played changes in immigration policy and really focused on a message of welcoming immigrants while looking tough on illegal entry. The "you didn't support our last minute efforts do try to fix the border" schtick, by itself, isn't going to work.
  13. Gerrymandered Beth Van Duyne (TX24 - Lake Highlands to fucking Ft. Worth), Christian ho and hypocrite, coveting her neighbors husband. Which arguably might not be a sin if you're a strict bible reader. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13429341/Who-Beth-Van-Duyne-Texas-GOP-Rep-53-seen-holding-hands-table-Georgia-Republican-Rich-McCormick-files-divorce-oncologist-wife.html I think all it will take is a good cry at her local non-dom church to get her back in good graces with the Southlake types. Sam's got no chance but I threw him a double sawbuck because I like tilting at windmills. https://sameppler.com/
  14. Although, looking at it another way, this requires that these folks be sexually active. I'd prefer that they stop procreating. In all honesty, I do sympathize with this, but I wouldn't wish the additional heartbreak on anyone. When you add in the issue of persons who are economically disadvantaged getting the quadruple bad news of 1) a genetic/reproductive issue PLUS 2) your doctors not being able to counsel you on your full alternatives for care PLUS 3) not being able to get local care and having to travel PLUS 4) not being able to afford that travel can care, it's just unspeakably cruel. I just had a stent put in. What would it have been like if my doctor had said "Yes, you have a clogged artery, but we don't do heart surgery here, I can't really tell you the alternatives, but I can refer you to a hospice. Best wishes." And if I wanted a stent I would have to debate driving or flying to Colorado, with concerns that there might be law enforcement or MAGA types trying to stop me from flying or driving and then not having insurance to cover the cost of the care or fear that I can't disclose the care to the insurance company and little extra money for travel? (When I was in college I was a young republican type and I actually wrote an op-ed for the school paper that was pro-life. I had a fucking deadline and I was a thoughtless little sexist wannabe Dartmouth Review type prick back then and it's a pretty profound regret, even though nobody read it and certainly doesn't remember it.)
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