Life Its Ownself

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Mid-Decade Redistricting Worked Out So Well Last Time; Let’s Try It Again!
The White House is hoping the Lege will redraw congressional lines to make them even more divorced from demographic and political reality. What could go…
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Three-Point Shots, Vol. 3, No. 7: June 6, 2025
We used to dream great dreams in our land. We thought we could make life better for everyone, and actively worked to do that. When did we become so…
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Zen and the Art of Time-Lapse Sunsets
Part of making time-lapse movies of West Texas sunsets is the very Eastern practice of Zen.
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May 2025

Why Memorial Day Matters — Especially Now
If Jesus, Allah, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster will it, you may get a great deal on a mattress today. But, as we seem to forget, there is much more to…
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Memorial Day, 2025
Arguably the first Memorial Day celebration was held 160 ½ years ago, in a field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The country is again in danger from within…
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I Want a New Plane Too!
The Qataris have given the president a $400 million “Palace in the Sky,” and there is nothing suspicious about that. So I want my own plane. Foreign…
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Habemus Papam Americanum
There is a new Pope, the first U.S. citizen and second person from the New World to ascend to the throne of St. Peter. What’s up with that?
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Fare Thee Well, Tecaboca
After some 90 years, the Marianist religious order is closing the Tecaboca property near Mountain Home, one of the touchstones of my life.
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100 Days and Counting …
The “flood the zone with sh*t” strategy has worked for Donald Trump’s first 100 days. Not it’s time so take a breath, settle down, and focus on the…
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April 2025

Three-Point Shots, Vol. 3, No. 6: April 24, 2025
Today, children, let’s talk about intelligence … and the remarkable lack of it in the top echelons of Texas politics.
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Bring. Home. Kilmar. Àbrego. Garcia.
If the Trump Administration can “disappear” a legal resident of this country without due process, it can disappear any of us without consequences.
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Emily Perez, Victim of DEI
Critics of DEI like to say it shields inferior candidates from the limits of their talents. But the Trump Administration is using it as a spear to…
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