Assuming there are no huge last minute upsets in the ballot counts, the 2018 Election went locally about as I expected. The Red Wave met the Blue Wave and we got mostly slack water nothingness, maybe a purple bruise? Really how much change, better or worse, are we going to experience when our local representative races all ended up forty…Continue Reading
Rambles & Rants
Ferndale School Bond – 2018 Fail
The 2018 Election is essentially in the books now and it seems certain that the 2018 Ferndale School Bond has failed, just as past Bonds failed. For days now I’ve been reading all over Facebook about what bad guys the NO voters are, and how the NO voters just don’t realize how bad FHS is, and how petty the NO…Continue Reading
2018 Election
I’ve made it a habit to do a lot of research regarding candidates and issues before I vote, but occasionally I didn’t have time to look at everything and everyone, so I would defer to the judgment of a political party to fill in the blanks. However, I see more and more how both major political parties are caring more…Continue Reading
Psychobabble Crap
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
Brethren
Daily, I read news regarding Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination as a Supreme Court justice and I find all of it to be nothing more than a sad bit of finger pointing, rather than a constructive vetting process. Congress and seemingly everyone else, is too busy using his nomination process to divide and demonize each other leaving no one to seriously look at Kavanaugh the…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