Bob Dunn

Goodby To All This

bdunn — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:50:30 +0000

For those few sports fans still occasionally perusing these pages, the time has come to say goodby. As is fairly obvious, I spend little time posting here anymore. It’s become too much of a drag on my time to deal ...

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The Formative Years

bdunn — Mon, 04 May 2020 20:56:38 +0000

I was supposed to be partaking of “senior assembly,” which was designed to keep us in our seats with our mouths shut, antsy as we all were, having already completed all our required testing and our required classroom hours with ...

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The Pandemic In My Back Yard

bdunn — Fri, 01 May 2020 11:58:35 +0000

In 1886 they called it Harlem Plantation. It was a state prison farm, essentially where black men unlucky enough to be arrested in the area were sent and then rented out to area farms to harvest sugar cane. In 1913, ...

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When You Wish Upon A Star

bdunn — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:13:31 +0000

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Monday that, in consultation with doctors and data, he would issue an order tomorrow allowing the partial reopening of restaurants, many businesses and public areas. “Because of your efforts,” he said at a press ...

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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

bdunn — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:08:07 +0000

In all the change wrought by the great viral hunkering down, the most notable to me involves obtaining food for the family. Here on the edge of Houston, Texas, I’ve taken our food supply for granted. Restaurants thrived and spread, ...

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Covid Chronicles: Setting The Scene

bdunn — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:03:18 +0000

So for the first time in my memory, everyone is living essentially the same story – just a different version. Here’s mine: First off, I am not complaining. I know that, for now, we are extremely fortunate compared to many ...

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Hear No Evil, See No Evil

bdunn — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:30:50 +0000

A bunch of protesters pretending to be just regular Texans took to the streets around the capital in Austin yesterday and hollered that it was time for Gov. Abbott to give them back their freedom and reopen the state so ...

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Notes From The Front

bdunn — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:52:05 +0000

Strange to think that we’re all on the front lines this time, wherever we are. For me, it’s Texas, just southwest of Houston. The nouveau corona virus hasn’t put us on government lockdown here yet, although rumors swirl suggesting we ...

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Fear Itself

bdunn — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:57:48 +0000

That pandemic receded into the background early last week, as we traveled to Arkansas where it had barely managed a toe-hold. By Thursday, however, we were back in Texas where corona virus cases were spreading and panic buying had begun. ...

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Nothing Concentrates The Mind Quite Like The Prospect Of A Backyard Pandemic

bdunn — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:47:27 +0000

Judging from the way the Covid-19 virus has spread across the rest of the globe so far, it seemed inevitable the pandemic would land in Texas. Actually, it’s been here awhile, as 11 people who contracted the virus outside the ...

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This Guy

bdunn — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:51:41 +0000

The closest thing I have to a resolution this year is resolving not to obsess about this guy. Sure, he’s been impeached for running a Sopranos-style extortion racket against the president of Ukraine. He nearly started a war with Iran ...

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In From The Outback

bdunn — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:56:07 +0000

Sorry about being incommunicado for so long, but we’ve been going through times of upheaval and change, mostly for the good, I hope. We sold the “farm” out west of here, for one thing, opting to stay nearer to Houston ...

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Gunsmoke

bdunn — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:39:59 +0000

UNCLASSIFIED August 12, 2019 The Honorable Richard Burr Chairman Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate The Honorable Adam Schiff Chairman Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence United States House of Representatives Dear Chairman Barr and Chairman Schiff: I am reporting ...

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Antisocial Media

bdunn — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:41:32 +0000

I’ve been a (fairly infrequent) Twitter user for years now. That’s over. This has been a long time in the works, but in recent months all the things that have been bothering me about this particular flavor of antisocial media ...

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