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http://pulltight.blogspot.com/2014/12/little-cowboys.html Wrote this a couple of years after reading an article in the New Yorker.  It is now adapted into a short video on episode 2 of the New Yorker on Amazon Prime. Read the article and watch the video. This maybe the most dangerous sport. 'Charles, between you and me we could write a book on injuries.' "We talked just a few days ago." Charlie Sampson,  1982 World Champion Bull Rider 1996 ProRodeo Hall of Fame attending Lane's funeral on Aug 2, 1989.                                       

“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”  ―  Stephen Hawking ,  A Brief History of Time Lunch at the Paris Cafe in Fort Worth today. Dining there is like going back to the 1950s. The place hasn't changed since then. Old pictures of the city and autographed photos of long dead celebrities hang on the wall.  The waitresses call you hon or darling.  Judging by the white hair, age spots and canes of the patrons, I might have been the only one dining not old enough to have voted when Eisenhower was president. And there was I, the tourist from the future, if only for half an hour.

In Texas until the past few years, much of the State prohibited the sale of alcohol.  Pundits would sometimes say "Texans will vote dry as long they not too drunk to stagger to the polls".  One of the small towns very near where I grew up had a wet dry election about 1970. Someone related an actual conversation between two, who could be best be described as a good Baptist brother GBB and the town drunk TD. GBB "How are you voting on the alcohol proposal?" TD "I am voting just like you." GBB "Didn't think you would be voting to stay dry." TD "No, I meant just like you I am voting the way I like" GBB "Oh" The town voted wet. This is the same town from the post (What is this World Coming to?) http://pulltight.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-is-this-world-coming-to.html As election time is approaching. I am sure to be asked how I am voting by some of my AM Radio Conservative AMRC relatives, friends and neighbors or perhaps ...