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  • The Triple: Third Time’s a Charm

    The Triple: Third Time’s a Charm

    I recently found two identical business cards while cleaning up my dresser top’s seemingly perpetual mess. The cards read Golden Senior Softball Club of Sacramento. I remembered picking up one card a year ago and the other about a few months ago. I vaguely recalled being interested in playing softball last year but never got Read more

  • Observations From the Reformer (the first and probably the last): Crash & Burn & Embarrassment

    Observations From the Reformer (the first and probably the last): Crash & Burn & Embarrassment

    Besides left-wing politics, writing, reading, and the two original subjects of this blog: scooters and Sacramento area hamburgers, this blog has sometimes seemed more like a blog on yoga than anything else. My interest in yoga lasted about seven and a half years. This blog has featured about 80 posts about yoga or something my Read more

  • Tax the Rich (Bastards)!

    Of all the political topics that get me riled up, besides the “man-madeglobal warming is a hoax,” I think the myth that taxing the rich is a badthing pisses me off the most. I’m going through a blogger’s dry patch. It’s like writer’s block, but it’s more like a lack of inspiration to post anything. Read more

  • Better Late Than Never

    Smedley Butler turned against what would later evolve into the military-industrial complex after helping create it. General Smedley Butler (Right) with Major General John A. Lejeune in camp at Frederick, Maryland in 1922. (Bettmann / Getty Images) Smedley Butler Helped Build American Empire. Then He Turned Against It. I remember reading Smedley Butler’s 1935 War Read more

  • New reflectors for my ride (and other boring stuff)

    I picked up my Vespa from Scooter City the other day after some expensive work was done on it. Hopefully, the leaky back tire is fixed for good. I’ve been in to have this leaky tire fixed for the third time. This time I put my foot down and told Rick, my trusted mechanic, that Read more

  • George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” turned 51 recently

    This is an innovative music video written and directed by Lance Bangs (director of many music videos as well as the Jackass television shows) and produced by Dhani Harrison (George’s son), David Zonshine (Dhani’s manager and a record executive). The video features appearances by: Mark Hamill, Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Ringo Starr, Dhani Harrison, Olivia Read more