Category: Culture
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What George Said
Seems more important than a “pet peeve”, but this has always been a pet peeve of mine. Protesting is great, so are mailers, letters to the editors, banners, Facebook posts, Tweets, memes, etc… The whole idea of a protest, whatever it’s form, is to call attention to an issue. Respect for its authority, compliance with…
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Head and Heart
I read this KGMI post on Facebook today. The post mentions a claim that President Trump is housing children in concentration camps and says that Rick Larsen will speak about how families belong together at a local protest. I found this “news” item by KGMI to be both divisive and dehumanizing towards our President and…
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The Way I Do Galbraith
This is the way I do Galbraith. Push, Pull, Drag and lately riding up Galbraith Lane up to the towers to get a good workout. Then pick a trail and enjoy the ride down because it was earned on the way up. I’m not up there to fly through the air off some downhill ramp,…
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Adaptive Cycle Expo 2018
Bikes and mechanical things are part of my comfort zone and, to be real, people with disabilities are usually way out of my comfort zone. So why volunteer for this type of event? Because comfort or no comfort, in my gut it seemed like the right thing to do and it also involves bikes (of sorts). …
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Bike to Work 2018
I bike to work on occasion, not always, but it isn’t unusual to see me biking in. I am not out to be a diehard bike advocate riding every day and everywhere in a vain attempt to save the world, I ride to work to save just a little bit of my health and sanity. …
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16
I’ll delve a little into politics here for a quick moment. I am hearing a lot of murmuring about a movement to allow voting by 16 year old people. I think that’s a bad idea, but… A vote will create laws and elect lawmakers who help determine community/national direction, yet at 16, or even 18…
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