Category: Culture
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Is This Really a Question?
The 2020 election was between two old guys, Biden v. Trump, which in my mind meant that there was a high likelyhood that their VP’s might be pressed into service as President. So, it only seemed prudent to put a little extra effort into vetting their VP choices of Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. …
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Winter Riding Tip
Many of my ride posts attest to the fact that I ride year round. You know rain, snow, dark of night, like the postal service only I do it for recreation. I’ve pushed my bike up the last snowy bit on Galbraith many a time and even carried my bike over parts of Wickersham in…
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Let America Be America Again
I find that one of the greatest benefits of education is not that you remember every word or date, but that you can recall concepts and incorporate them into your everyday life. Such is the case for me on this 4th of July. My education could have emphasized that the Declaration of Independence was signed…
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Masks
Don’t conflate donning a mask for self protection against a virus with donning a simple cloth mask to slow the spread of the virus to others. They are not the same thing. Mask science is not political science nor social media science. Mask science is science science, and it’s well established Science. I don’t know…
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Road Rash 2020
Donald Trump won because we wanted someone who was not part of the existing political establishment to get in there and start representing us over political parties. He said he would “drain the swamp” which I, like many others I suspect, took as someone who would work to break up the networks of political corruption…
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Back to Our Roots
In my daily newsfeed I see all kinds of techie mechanisms and “groundbreaking” technologies; many aimed at removing CO2 from our atmosphere and in some fashion, returning it to the earth. But to what end, to drop a block of carbon on the ground, or stuff the sequestered carbon back deep into the ground by…
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