Archive for the 'Completely unrelated to bicycles or law' Category
Has it really come to this?
Not to be too churlish about this, but have we fallen so far as a people that a half-mile walk through the woods calls for a New York Times article and a nation-wide round of self-applause?
Hurricane Irene left an astonishing mess on Vermont and elsewhere, and I would never minimize that. One community there [...]
New Year’s musings on our energy addiction
A recent New Yorker article about energy conservation has taken a lot of the wind out of my already drooping environmental sails. Now, before you fall straight asleep at the words “energy conservation,” consider the thesis of the article, which is: contrary to conventional belief, measures designed to conserve fossil fuels by improving energy [...]
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When you run a blog you learn a lot about internet scams. I get numerous new posts to this Website every day from people who are trying to increase their Google ranking by inserting a link to their own Website onto mine. The way it works is they post a comment with a [...]
Read More..>>The last nasty thing I am going to say about New Mexico
I know it doesn’t sound like it, but I actually like New Mexico. However, some of what jumped out at me during my trip there during the last two weeks wasn’t too flattering to our eastern neighbor.
One thing — and I know we have these here in Arizona too, in spades — was a [...]
Time for an upgrade
I just returned from two weeks in the mountains of New Mexico. It was a work trip, researching an environmental lawsuit I am working on, but because I got to be in the mountains camping, walking and riding my bike, most of the time it seemed a lot like a vacation.
One thing I decided [...]
Walter Cronkite, truth teller, 1916-2009
I’m sad tonight. Walter Cronkite may have never ridden a bike in his life, for all I know, but I grew up watching his broadcasts and it so happens I have been reading this anthology lately which includes his famous “mired in stalemate” piece for CBS.
That was a courageous thing for him [...]