{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Jim Rain","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/JimRain","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"11913","username":"JimRain","bio":"I was old, but I'm getting younger. I make tortillas. Christian. Fifth-generation Texan (Dallas variety). The foregoing is not necessarily listed in order of importance.","pronouns":"he/him","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":46,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2026/25/11913.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"99419149","content_html":"

A Half-Dozen Feel-Good Movies

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  1. About Time
    2. \n
  2. The Shop Around the Corner
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  3. The Tao of Steve
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  4. Casablanca
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  5. Cold Comfort Farm
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  6. What’s Up Doc?
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Feel like sharing some of yours?

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@tinyroofnail I’ve ordered it from the wonderful Abe Books.

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Presented without comment (because none is needed) to my fellow Texas voters:

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From the WSJ:

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Elon Musk Pours a Fortune Into Saving Texas for Republicans\nThe world’s richest man donated $158 million to an effort backing state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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@KyleEssary We had a fun time!

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@ReaderJohn I can confirm that those wind arrows are blowing down into Texas. Very blustery this morning.

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@tinyroofnail Me too. I believe I first learned of him through the Mars Hill recordings.

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@ReaderJohn @tinyroofnai I will look for that Meilander piece. Thanks.

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@tinyroofnail Thanks for pointing me to that piece.

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At the State Fair

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Can you guess which state? It’s a toughie.

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Retirement Day + 10 months

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  1. At first, you still wake up thinking, “What do I have to do today?” Followed by the nice realization: “I don’t have to do ANYTHING today!”
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  2. Eventually, though, there’s the even better wake-up thought: “What do I GET to do today?”
    3. \n
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How surprising.

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From the Texas Tribune:

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Since assuming office in 2015, Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million….

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Records detailing the purpose of Paxton’s visits to 36 states and 19 countries do not appear to exist in most cases. These include a trip to a small town in Hawaii months before his family’s blind trust bought land there; 24 trips to Utah, where the trust owns five properties; and 53 trips to Florida, where Paxton and the trust have two houses and a townhome.

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Moonrise at Sunrise

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08 Oct 2026

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@DandelionUtilitarian I’m with you. It never gets stale.

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Reminds me of elections in a Trollope novel

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Per CNBC:

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The Trump administration began sending $500 refunds1 on Wednesday to more than 950,000 Obamacare enrollees… Recipients are largely those earning more than 400% of the federal poverty line…

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1Not really a refund; just a payment dictated by the WH.

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In other words, a bribe to many folks who don’t need the money.

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He’s also sending $90 checks to 20 million folks on Medicare. “Not eligible are … millions of … people with disabilities and low-income[s].”

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When that $90 comes in, I’m sending it straight to the Talarico campaign.

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@manton I hope.

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@KyleEssary Paxton is flooding TV and the internet with ads that I think are having an effect. Folks, remember, Paxton is a criminal and an adulterer. We already have one of those in the White House. That’s more than enough for one country.

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@frjonjordan FYI, when Megan saw the book, she said, “Oh, what a beautiful cover!” Tell Viv.

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@frjonjordan, excited that my copy of Rhythms of Habit just arrived. I look forward to reading it. I’m highly impressed, even before p. 1, by blurbs from Malcolm Guite, Victor Lee Austin, and most magnificently, of course, Dr. E. R. Kincaid! High praise, indeed.

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Seriously, congratulations.

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Gilead

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I finished reading Marilyn Robinson’s Gilead. I have tons of thoughts about this wonderful novel, but they’re jumbled. For now, I think I’ll leave them that way. It’s wiser simply to be with this book for a while than to dissect it.

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@ffmike Hmmm. Thanks for the link!

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Crazy thought

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Even if the GOP barely keeps the Senate in November, is it possible that an impeachment trial in the next two years would convict Trump with some GOP votes, on the theory that kicking him out could help them in the 2028 elections?

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@frjonjordan I’m not giving up on Spurs. That would just be wrong.

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But I’m switching to supporting the women’s team. (Maybe. At any rate, I will start paying attention to them.)

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Interesting Point About Trump’s CNN, et al., Ban

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Someone on the PBS Newshour noted that Trump’s banning of news agencies he doesn’t like is of a piece with his gutting of government inspectors general. Anyone whose job is to hold him accountable is his enemy.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/09/21/interesting-point-about-trumps-cnn/","date_published":"2026-09-22T01:15:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-22 01:15","date_timestamp":1790039741,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97871050","content_html":"

@jaheppler I loved the Nano, too.

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Spurs, here’s a reminder.

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@frjonjordan, if this helps, I’m all for it.

\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/09/18/spurs-a-reminder-frjonjordan-if/","date_published":"2026-09-18T18:22:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-18 18:22","date_timestamp":1789755735,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97646227","content_html":"

Oh, boy.

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Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard so close together. I am so grateful for both of them. May they rest in peace and rise in glory.

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I’m a lamp.

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I love the quiet humor of “Poorly Drawn Lines” by Reza Farazmand.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/09/15/im-a-lamp-i-love/","date_published":"2026-09-15T19:35:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F25%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-15 19:35","date_timestamp":1789500909,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97384879","content_html":"

Benefits of Age

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Jonah Goldberg:

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I often roll my eyes when young people claim that older people “just don’t understand” this or that. We know what it was—what it is—like to be young; we just also know what it’s like not to be, too.

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I’d say, “We know what it was like to be young when we were young. We know – in part – what it’s like to be young today”

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9/11

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All changed, changed utterly…

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Too long a sacrifice
\nCan make a stone of the heart.

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– W.B. Yeats, “Easter, 1916”

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O, God, our times are in your hand…

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– Psalm 31

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Civility

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I’ve been watching “Jeopardy Masters.” (I’m about 10 days behind, so please, no spoilers!) What’s striking is how gracious these superb players are to each other. Maybe they’re directed to be nice, but it seems utterly genuine. If only our “civil” discourse could be so truly civil.

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Damon Linker:

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Beginning with September 11, we entered an era shaped decisively by militant populism and disruption. From Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders’ 2016 insurgency to Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the GOP to the Women’s March and George Floyd protests to the insurrectionary riot of January 6, 2021 and Trump’s 2024 re-election and so many other, smaller examples, both here and around the world—militant populism and disruption targeting establishments and the people who run them have become the predominant fuel for politics, as well as the lens that at once focuses and distorts our...

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@jabel Cool!

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This will make you happy.

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Do you know Instagram’s “Dust-to-Digital” account? It’s a great collection of clips of superb musicians performing on the street, in houses, at church, all over, everywhere in the world, often using homemade instruments. Try this one featuring young artists. Sound up!

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Damon Linker

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Every day this know-nothing lunatic remains in the presidency is a day during which the country, and the world, tempts … terrible fates. The stupidity radiating from the Oval Office is blinding, though often in a quasi-comical way. But it wouldn’t take much to turn that comedy into tragedy.

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@ReaderJohn Substitute pais (or even monde) for mere, and I think we’ve accurately described Mr. Trump’s raison d’être.

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@ReaderJohn

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clutches head in hands

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More and more rather than “how high” I want to say, “Go eff yourself you senile old fool.”

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@void2259 I really like all of them. But, yes, especially the one with the eyes.

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Eccentricity Crisis

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Sam Buntz

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Through its educational priorities and excessive fixation on the quantifiable, the U.S. only supports forms of eccentricity that lend themselves to some immediately definable commercial goal, while neglecting any that have to do with pure curiosity. Hence, we’re lobbing gobs of money at the Sam Altmans and Elon Musks of the world, while forsaking interest in reality itself, in what all this stuff actually is. Pure curiosity about nature, the force that motivated Thoreau and Ramanujan, seems liable to languish on the fringes.

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Real Genius

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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– Arthur Schopenhauer

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@mwerickson Kieślowski’s work is wonderful. A Short Film about Killing is harrowing; Dekalog 5 is a slightly condensed version. But I think his masterpieces are The Double Life of Veronique, Blue, and Red.

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@joshuapsteele Earlier in Luke 15, before we get to the “good stuff,” i.e., lost sheep, lost coin, lost son, there’s this: “And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.’” Not a minor phrase, but it’s easy to miss in that chapter.

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@joshuapsteele That’s a great one. Earlier in Luke 15, before we get to the “good stuff,” i.e., lost sheep, lost coin, lost son, there’s this: “And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.’” Yeah, man! Good news indeed, for me, at least.

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Saruman or Adrian Vermeule?

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As the Power grows, its proved friends will also grow; and the Wise, such as you and I, may with patience come at last to direct its courses, to control it. We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends. There need not be, there would not be, any real change in our designs, only in our means.

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@JohnBrady We painted our garage/backhouse this color 10 years ago and love it every day.

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@ayjay Exciting! Looking forward to it.

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@ted Nice quotation. I wonder if Lamster’s book worth buying. I’m glad he reviews Dallas architecture, even though I disagree with him about City Hall.

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Difficult on purpose

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For obvious reasons, I don’t trust Trump with unchecked power. But I also wouldn’t trust Abdul Al-Sayed, or Bernie Sanders, or anyone else with unchecked power. Indeed, the fact that these people tend to believe that obstacles and inconveniences on their quest for ever-more power are somehow illegitimate or unfair is precisely why I don’t trust them with power.

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@KyleEssary @manton If Collin County goes against him, Paxton is toast. Fingers crossed.

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Real Casualties

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Isabella Gonzales, a 19-year-old Army private from a Dallas suburb, was one of the three U.S. service personnel killed over the weekend because of Donald Trump’s lack of impulse control. Real death, real grief; not that he cares. But the rest of us should.

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Messi notwithstanding, this is just terrible.

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From The Athletic:

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Argentina standing with their backs to the presentation as Spain players go up to receive their medals.

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More from Darron Richman on The Athletic:

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… Argentina shamed themselves from beginning to end and even beyond the final whistle. They were an embarrassment.

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Oh, and this is nice too. Post-match.

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Leandro Paredes, … pushed the Barcelona defender [Eric Garcia] in the throat.

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Finally, this Argentina showreel.

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