We the Consumer

With the bike now off the road for all intents and purposes as a mode of adult transportation…at home, but content minding the kids, teaching skills of balance and basic first aid, teaching that taking things apart is often easier than putting them back together again, teaching would-be engineers the finer points of ramp building […]

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History

Heeding my…err…bike’s advice I started to snoop around, do a little research, and found the following… Early automobile history is fraught with controversy, patent disputes, and in-fighting…so wading into that soal too deep could be all-consuming, deadly and thick black bottom mud holding you fast, and still yield no actual truths. I mean, knowing how subjective any history […]

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The Mantra

There are two things that need to be done to fix this “groupism”. First, realize its presence in everyday life, this is mindfulness, then broaden your definition to be more inclusive…you need a bigger group. Make the group you share big enough and you’ll have no group at all; all will be one, the crooked tree–straight, […]

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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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The Basics

There is a war out there on the streets, a little war for sure (if there is such a thing), but a war none-the-less with it’s fair share of casualties. 2009 showed something like 630 deaths and close to 60,000 related injuries. Statistics aren’t really kept up to date on the subject on a federal […]

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