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Disyembre 21, 2025

Another snapshot from a presidential biography.

Texted, just now, from my son Chris, who reads presidential biographies:



I think there's some fat-shaming there, no? Or fat-celebrating. Also: "Venezuelan troubles."

Nobyembre 29, 2025

"... the baby is fat... "


Chris, who reads biographies of U.S. Presidents, texts me this photo from "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" by Doris Kearns Goodwin (commission earned).

If your first baby was "frail from birth" and died at 14 months, you too would experience joy to see the new baby is actively fat. Taft grew to a heft of 340 pounds, our fattest President by far.

Chris also sends this photograph he took, in case you are wondering what Christmas decorations look like in Austin: