I received a letter from John Cornyn’s office today reporting that the Texas Department of Transportation has addressed my concerns about a highway in Texas being designated a Jeff Davis Highway.
Here’s the text of Cornyn’s letter:
Dear Mr. Raines:
After reviewing your concerns, the Texas Department of Transportation provided the enclosed response to my inquiry. I hope [...]

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The laptop crashes. Not like last time—a blown hard drive and everything a loss— this time, the screen is failing. It appears that a grove of trees is silhouetting themselves along the bottom of the screen so that I can’t see the taskbar when it pops up or the execute button on, say, the graphic [...]

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Paul Krugman’s column this morning warns against the stimulus package that the House of Representatives has passed on to the Senate. Professor Krugman’s grounds, principally, are that the current agreement will give most of the “rebates” to people who don’t necessarily need it all that much and what they will do is put it in [...]

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Visualizing cats. What a pass time. For reasons not quite utterable, I’m not asleep at closing in on four in the morning. Rather I’m up and scraping pixels around this way and that making cats. Here’s one. Small and pink. Not quite an icon, but headed that way. I use Image Composer 1.5, which used [...]

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