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  • The Favorite Scooter Gadgets I Don’t Have (BBBC 2017.6)

    Brave, Bold, Blogger Challenge No. 6: “Your favorite motorcycle gadget/gizmo” is a tough one. I have no gadgets or gizmos. I’m a simple scooterist. I have a simple disk break lock that I never use so I would hardly call that my favorite. I had some valve stem covers with…

  • I’ll Pick My Nose in Private, Thank You! (BCCC 2017.13)

    I have seen many images of houses sporting an open floor concept and they are interesting as a concept, but I’ve been in two houses with this plan and can tell right off I don’t like it. The first time I was in one the owners quickly shuffled my wife…

  • The Vacuum of Vacuuming (BBBC 2017.3)

    My least favorite household chore is vacuuming the house. Now to be honest I rarely do it leaving the job for my wife though from time to time I feel either compelled for one reason or another or I get a direct order from the boss to do it. When…

  • Yosemite National Park (BBBC 2017.11)

    I have never been to Yosemite National Park. When I was growing up all my friends had gone to Yosemite and in all my adult years I don’t think I have ever heard anyone say they have not been to Yosemite. I admit I’m not the outdoors type. Still, whenever I hear people…

  • Nest with the Blue Egg (BBBC 2017.28)

    It has been a long time! I haven’t posting anything on this blog or my other, more general blog, Jack’s Blog, since last May and knew before giving up this thing that I would give it at least one more shot. That’s when–only a few minutes ago–I stumbled across ToadMama’s…

  • Something I have been thinking about as the years scoot on…

    The  excellent scooter blog Scooter in the Sticks posted something that made me want to re-post it here. A New Adventure.

  • The Dissident Scooterist Rides On

    I wear my DSA button on my motorcycle jacket with pride. I would love to say it is a successful ice breaker, but I rarely get any comments from it. So, this old dissident rides on–alone.

  • Not Quite the Yogi–Yet

    Here are sixteen signs that tell the world you are into yoga from DoYouYoga.com. I’m well below the Seven mark, but some of the other signs appeal to me. Namaste!

  • Noam Chomsky on the New York Times’ Media Bias

    As Tom Engelhardt wrote: “Noam Chomsky is a wonder. In his mid-eighties and still going strong, he’s the anti-Henry Kissinger. He has a must-read piece on how the New York Times covers American acts in the world from Laos to Cuba to Iran. You won’t see anything else like it.”…