1. Funny &/or scary things that happened to me
2. My opinions about movies and other topics
3. Long distance bicycle touring (considerable overlap here with item #1 above)

Most of the larger parks and forest reserves are essentially little more than noise buffers for highways.

One can imagine him jockeying himself in as a kind of regent if the king's capacities become further diminished. I mean, he's already done that... so it'd be more a question of degree. Then it's just a matter of finding a legal subterfuge to make it official. And, needless to say, permanent.

Face it, this is all out of your hands. The ayatollahs have taken over; their minions are dismantling all the checks and all the balances. Tilting at windmills might make you feel better, but it won't save our democracy.

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Buffalo is Great Lakes. The Midwest is an abstraction.

Them too

Ditto. Never did it, & I recall conversations w random Germans demanding to know "How is it possible you Americans made Reagan president?!" This of course was barely a generation past WWII, so I really had to make an effort to repress some sort of impolite comeback. And in any case, I agreed w them.

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Dammit I switched the labels on Paris and Tokyo...

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It cost $150 to send a half-ounce letter via Pony Express, champ. Be careful what you wish for.

If you read accounts written before these historic breakdowns (Germany 30s, Rwanda 90s, Yugoslavia 90s, Hungary 10s), people did see it coming and felt (were) helpless to stop it. That’s where we are now. Outlook not rosy.

Definitely both, with a heaping dose of God damn this show jumped the shark years ago and it just keeps going

Any idea of the numbers on the supply side of this equation?