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And without further delay, here's this week's commusing titled The Principled Brigand. How I ended up driving, I don't remember, but there I was behind the wheel on a backcountry

Texas road at 1 a.m. Johnny Walker, yes, his real name, sat beside me cruding at the top of his lungs to Steve Miller's fly like an eagle.

We were weaving our way back to Austin from a raucous party in the hill country Johnny dragged me to.

I deserved a gold medal for escaping with just a couple of beers under my belt. In Texas, go big or go

home, apparently applied not only to trucks and stakes, but also to revelry, the things I saw.

Johnny wasn't my friend. He was my business partner. And to be clear, we didn't choose

each other, but reluctantly found financial utility in one another. Johnny had money, which I needed,

and he believed I could make him more.

We couldn't have been more different.

Johnny was a good old boy from Virginia,

carpetbagging in Texas.

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