Nike/Kaepernick … what a morally bankrupt and shameful meme you have bestowed upon our world. “Believe in Something, Even if it Means Sacrificing Everything.” What a load of psychobabble crap you’ve come up with. On 9/11/01 some terrorists believed in something and sacrificed everything. On 9/11/01 many people believed in saving others even if it meant sacrificing their own…Continue Reading
Rambles & Rants
Stick To What You Know
Colin Kaepernick, you seem to have two strengths: acting like an ass and playing football. People don’t look to you for any more than acting like an ass and playing football, so drop the whole wise sage guru “believe in something” BS because we aren’t buying it, it just makes you look like that much more of an ass. Nike,…Continue Reading
Timing
People say that timing is everything and I guess that I am one of them who says that. I normally ride Galbraith in the early morning. I try for going up pre-dawn that way as the sun is coming up I am riding down, what are for the most part, empty trails. Occasionally I get a late start and start…Continue Reading
Ratchet This Thing Down
One of the things I committed to when starting this blog thing anew, was that when and if I were to ever delve into the realm of politics, I would do it without getting hateful, or partisan. I say that again, not because I am about to renege, rather because I want to double down on that commitment to not…Continue Reading
Numpties, Assholes and Canadians
Likely the most important base assumption that I think every cyclist should make before venturing out on the road is this; every car, every truck, every bus, every vehicle of every kind is out to run you over. You do this because if you start from this position then you are starting out in safest defensive riding mode and you…Continue Reading
I Don’t Approve, I Understand
Spock said something really similar to my title in one of the original series episodes. Aliens were waging war using computers, with people voluntarily killing themselves whenever the computer said it was their turn. That plan avoided the messiness of war, but also avoided the ending of the war. People had been dying century after century with no end…Continue Reading