Archive for the 'Completely unrelated to bicycles or law' Category

Has it really come to this?

Posted by Erik on September 12th, 2011 filed in Completely unrelated to bicycles or law, Slightly off-topic rant

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 [...]

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New Year’s musings on our energy addiction

Posted by Erik on January 5th, 2011 filed in Completely unrelated to bicycles or law

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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Tempe-lawyer.com

Posted by Erik on October 28th, 2010 filed in Completely unrelated to bicycles or law, vexation of the spirit

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 [...]

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The last nasty thing I am going to say about New Mexico

Posted by Erik on August 3rd, 2010 filed in Completely unrelated to bicycles or law

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 [...]

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Time for an upgrade

Posted by Erik on August 3rd, 2010 filed in Completely unrelated to bicycles or law, vexation of the spirit

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 [...]

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Walter Cronkite, truth teller, 1916-2009

Posted by Erik on July 17th, 2009 filed in Completely unrelated to bicycles or law

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 [...]

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