And today, because no story is complete with the follow-on backgrounder from the paper of record, comes the news that the White House is literally teeming with flies.

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It just flies over your house all day.

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With little left to prove, Chouinard could sell the company and happily spend his time catching breakers (here or at his other home up the coast, in Hollister Ranch), fly fishing (near his house in Jackson, Wyoming, using flies he ties himself), and mentoring and donating to his favored environmental causes.

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From our place to Fort Smith was about seventy miles as a bird flies, taking you past beautiful Mount Nebo where we had a little summer house so Mama could get away from the mosquitoes, and also Mount Magazine, the highest point in Arkansas, but it might as well have been seven hundred miles for all I knew of Fort Smith.

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