The day's destination was Marion, KY -- about 70 miles by bicycle from Mount Vernon. It was still a little cool for camping, and we had reason to believe there was a motel there ( Read more... )

The first order of business was to get some breakfast and internet. It's hard to remember now why it was so important to get on the net, but we didn't find any. There were two coffee shops in Vincennes. One was closed on Sunday. The other was a Starbucks that didn't have internet ( Read more... )

The latest idea was to drive 350 miles to Vincennes, IN and start the trip from there. Back in 1811 Tecumseh left from West Lafayette, but for us it was still a little cool that far north for camping. A lot of campgrounds weren't even open yet. The sooner we got south the better ( Read more... )

A headline on Friday's front page ( Read more... )

Saturday's bike ride wasn't as much as it should have been, but it was the longest of the year so far: 33 miles. (This year's total: 388 miles ( Read more... )

Back in the early 1980s I used to call myself a right-wing, conservative environmentalist. Which led to a scene down at the Bedford Township fire hall one election day, but I'll save that for another day ( Read more... )

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This Matt Davies cartoon appeared in today's Kalamazoo Gazette and in The Journal News on 23-Feb-2006It reminds me that it works the other way, too. I wonder how many of the same people who warn about the dangers of xenophobia in the case of the Dubai Ports World are the same people who warn about jobs being outsourced to furriners. In ( Read more... )

Bob Lewis is my favorite techie pundit, and probably would be even if Bob Metcalfe came back to do more punditing. Not that those two would see eye to eye on anything, especially if the subject turned to politics. Lewis always has great insights on techie management which (as I've told him) would make him a great libertarian-leaning ( Read more... )

Why Mommy is a Democrat

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Excerpt: Democrats make sure we all share our toys, just like Mommy does. Democrats make sure we all are safe, just like Mommy does.Some of us have been warning all along that Democrats are like this. For our trouble we got laughed at for our tinfoil hats and black helicopters. The scary thing is ( Read more... )

Clinton: White House should have spoken sooner on Cheney shooting

And not one word in this article about the Clinton stonewalling on travelgate, filegate, Susan McDougal, the campaign finance scandal, Whitewater, etc. etc. etc. Spoken sooner, indeed.