Category: Rambles & Rants
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Disagreeable
Governor Inslee is my governor in the same fashion that President Obama was my president. I didn’t vote for either of them and don’t/didn’t agree with much they do/did. However, like it or not, they were duly elected. So out of respect for our state and nation, I accept them, and as difficult as it…
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Six Low Dollar Fixes for Ferndale’s Trail System
I started writing this post to talk about how I see the general state of getting around by bicycle in the greater Bellingham/Whatcom area. My address is Ferndale so I began writing by commenting on the general state of getting around and through Ferndale by bike. Before I knew it I had the whole screen…
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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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