Danny Deck

3rd quarter was kinda light on stuff I really liked. 3 books about the Nixon years: Watergate: A New History, The Inevitability of Tragedy, and Nixon and Kissinger. Finished the Duane Moore series by Larry McMurtry. I think the first three are excellent, The Last Picture Show, Texasville and Duane's Depressed. The last two are much less essential. Probably my favorite read was Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper which I'd describe as Michael Clayton written by James Ellroy. So far the fall has has some better picks. I read Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe in advance of the show coming on Hulu. The book was really good, and I'm 3 episodes into the show and it is excellent. I read An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris finally. It is exactly how I wanted to learn more about The Dreyfus Affair, in dramatic form. I hope it's turned into a show/movie that has US distribution. The adaptation by Roman Polanski isn't distributed here post #Metoo.

I doubt there has been a major update to the human circadian rhythm in that time.

This website is interesting to look at at the differences for different cities. https://savestandardtime.com/chart/?clock=pdst&city=4553433

Just a reminder: https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/

Order of prefernce: Permanent Standard Time Status Quo Permanent Savings Time I can't imagine the misery of 2.5 months of sunrise after 8 am.

Didn't fill up but it was $2.45 at Sam's yesterday. Think $2.59 at regular stations.

I assume money. Here in Tulsa there are two early voting locations for the entire county, and we don't have a very long early in person voting window, today through Saturday. It looks like only Cleveland County, where OU is located is the only county in the whole state with more than 2 locations. Looks like on actual election day we'll have 239 voting locations. In 2022 I think it took me about 90 minutes, but they had split people up into two lines by last name. If you were the first half of the alphabet you could be in and out in like 5 minutes. Obviously I'm not still mad about it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-virginia-purge-noncitizens-voter-rolls-ahead-elec-rcna177673 "Virginia has same-day voter registration, meaning that any eligible voter who was removed from the rolls should still be able to vote." This is good.

I'm more worried about what recourse a legal voter has if they're purged. If they have enough time to deal with the inevitable bureaucracy than do your voter roll maintenance, if they don't, then it's too late to do this kind of thing.

August and September of an election year seems really close to an election and not allowing much time for someone to fix any issues. Seems like something that should be like a January through March of an election year at the latest kind of thing.

They succeeded in blocking 7 rules that were issued September 20 including one for installing drop box surveillance. It appears the court's reasoning was about timing and authority of the election board. The rules were initially thrown out on 10/16. On 10/22 the Georgia Supreme Court did not fast track the case so it won't be heard before the election.

In 2020 Biden won the precincts surrounding this particular ballot box 60/40, so maybe just maybe, there is another option you could consider.

There were two fires, one in Portland and one across the river in Vancouver, WA. I thought this was the Vancouver one.

What assumptions are we making about who set fire to ballots in the only large city in a toss up district?