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Preppin' for Tex.

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Got your cowboy hat yet? Oh. Okay, why the hell not? Just go downtown, walk into the cowboy supply store, and pull a ten-gallon hat off the rack. What's so hard about that? Oh... hey, man. Caught me, once again, in the midst of lecturing the help. Marvin (my personal robot assistant) refers to it derisively as "reprogramming", but you know better. All I asked him to do was to purchase his own cowboy gear - that's all. Is that so unreasonable? Am I expected to pay for everything around here? What the hell - I'm the "job creator", right? I'm the one using "air quotes" left and right. Haven't I done my part in this employer-robot assistant relationship? Huh? Okay, so why am I asking Marvin to dress up like Tex? So that he'll match the rest of us, of course, when we start shooting videos to support our upcoming album of Cousin Rick Perry songs. What the hell, we can't release an album of songs nominally by the governor of Texas ...

Next round.

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Sure, I'm surprised that the Affordable Care Act survived this past Thursday. I thought the mainstream media was going to talk it to death, frankly. Talk about wind-ups ... by the time 10:00 a.m. rolled around, I was too bleeping sick of the issue to even care, and let me tell you - that's quite a distance for me. It's just that the horserace coverage of every political issue gets under my skin in the worst way. The merits of a given issue are never deeply examined; it's always he said this, she said that. No way to work out which is closer to the truth. They did this with health care, pretty much all day. After the decision was handed down, NPR had some guy from Cato and a policy wonk from the administration. Basically just put them in a room and watch them spar. Of course, Cato guy is much further to the right than the Obama person is to the left, so it's kind of a straw man argument at best. How is this news? They pulled the same thing with the "Fast and F...