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Blasting to build the highway revealed beautiful rock.

Beautiful rock

Branded hillside

Trees by the roadside

Near Overbrook, OK

Valero

We cross the border into Oklahoma, the last liquor store behind us and a vast schizophrenic casino is ahead. We are indeed in God’s country now!

Oklahoma! There’s no liquor but there’s gambling!

Some heavy equipment near the highway in Valley View, TX

Valley View

Horsea graze in a dry field.

Horses in a dry field

Lamps at a gas station north or Sanger, TX

Lamps

We’ve just passed through Denton, TX after a very late lunch stop.

Denton

Oklahoma bound

With temperatures routinely above 100, I am headed north to Oklahoma to help my sister move into her new home. I’ll post things here as we go from civilization in Texas to the great unknown of the vast American Desert north of here. 🙂

Oklahoma bound

Paper and Electrons

The closure of all Borders Bookstores and the liquidation of their inventory has gotten people talking about how electronic books are beginning to erode brick and mortar stores. In my own life, I have embraced a mix of electronic and paper books. I still purchase paper books and I use […]

Books without Borders

Pie Chart Car

Data is the disinfectant for myth. The Mythbusters routinely use this on their popular TV show, and scientists use it every day. I’ve tried to use a data-based approach in this blog when discussing policy matters, since I believe that data and data analysis has a central role in understanding […]

I kan haz national debt?

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