A Flipping Switch

With all the conventions going on I thought I’d wax political… “Senator, Senator, Dave Mandel from Cycling Reviewer. Your view of ‘Don’t ask, Don’t Tell’ is well known, as is your firm belief that marriage should be solely between one man and one wom–” “Yes, yes David, I am quite the conservative on the social […]

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Resource competition

So here we are, modernity, the cutting edge, tablets and smart phones. No more relying on the creek for breakfast, most of us instead a slave to the grocery store and the frozen and processed foods inside. The bow long gone, we hunt these days with shopping carts and debit cards.While nobody’s shooting fish-thieving eagles […]

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Groups and competition

I have so much I want to share with you that I’m really struggling with where to begin…maybe then, twenty thousand years ago or so. Picture yourself in a little valley, a grassy clearing in the middle surrounded by majestic trees of all sort and variety. A rambling brook with smooth and slippery rocks, running through your small village, began […]

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