Two good questions
IANAL, although my criminal defense attorney friend couldn't believe that I successfully argued my case in traffic court, which he called "the most rigged tribunal in the world."Yesterday the...
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The latest congressional "investigation" has cleared the Obama administration of any wrongdoing in the Benghazi attack. The investigation by the House Intel Committee was not conducted by Darrell...
View ArticleMy Book is Finished!
Beginning in 1968 I was a roadie for the Sons of Champlin, a San Francisco band. I worked on shows with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana, The Byrds, Steve...
View ArticleWSJ Reviewed my book today
My book on my two decades of bicycling adventure was released last month.Today the Wall Street Journal reviewed it, and loved it.Big day for me. Not that I was a fan of the WSJ, bought my first ever...
View ArticleAn amazing collection
A collection of postcards, all over 100 years old, has been handed down to me. I have no idea how many people's hands the collection passed through in the century since they were sent, but somehow...
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Anza-Borrego Exploration
The four-day weekend was all anyone could ask. On Friday, February 20, I flew into San Diego with Jacquie Phelan in tow, courtesy of Dave Duncan, owner of Bike Borrego. Dave picked us up and after a...
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Reviews of My Book
In 1979 my best friend Gary Fisher and I rented a garage, and gave our two-man enterprise the grandiose name of "MountainBikes." As it worked out, we were onto something, a design which turned out to...
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The Last Hanging in Tombstone
While going through some old family papers I came upon this document.Charging document for Thomas and William Halderman, signed by Wm. Momonier April 7, 1899. It is a court document charging two men,...
View Article@#$% Autoplay ad
Today when I opened DKos, as soon as I scrolled down to where the autoplay ad showed on my monitor, it froze the page at that point and would not let me move to any other part of the page until the...
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Museum of Bicycling
I had the great fortune to take part in the most important development in bicycling of the 20th Century. Through an unlikely series of events a small group of bicyclists revolutionized the sport and...
View ArticleIt really IS a horse race
It is not a profound or recent observation that news coverage of modern American elections is concentrated on the "horse race" aspect, i.e. who is ahead or behind and by how much. Meanwhile the actual...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush and I find common ground
George W. Bush and I could not be any further apart politically. I am a Kossack from Day One, UID #207, and he is the guy whose policies inspired me to become a Kossack.But we are both mountain...
View ArticleWhen California banned "open carry"
It is a matter of conservative doctrine that Ronald Reagan embodied All That Was Good in a human being and as a president. His brand of conservatism is supposedly the Gold Standard. You can't run as...
View ArticleInterbike Bicycle Trade Show
I went to the big international trade show Interbike on behalf of the Marin Museum of Bicycling and the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. They needed someone to drive a truck with the exhibit to Las Vegas...
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A "People's Bike" for the "People's Pope"
Today the announcement was made public. Pope Francis has a custom commemorative bike from Breezer Bikes, and in honor of the presentation another 100 bicycles have been given to the city of...
View ArticleHillary Rope-A-Dopes Gowdy
This Benghazi! climax may not be shaping up the way Trey Gowdy planned it. He got what he wanted, Hillary Clinton under oath, on live TV.So why is he the one who is sweating?First of course is the...
View ArticleAd Blocker Improves DKos
Lately I have been frustrated by my computer’s performance on some of my favorite sites. DKos, Crooks&Liars, Raw Story are all loaded with Javascript. If I left a page open for any length of...
View ArticleDeputies invoke racism in solicitation
I received a solicitation letter from the Marin County Deputy Sheriff’s Association, looking for donations. Included in the mostly uninteresting letter was this phrase, "...we are mindful of the...
View ArticleMy LTE was published today (Updated)
Last week I hit the Rec List with this diary about deputy sheriffs using racism to raise money.The diary included the text of a letter I sent to a local newspaper. The letter was published today. Here...
View ArticleMore on My Local Racist Police
I have been engaged in an email exchange with the Chief of Police of a local municipality whose police officers’ association used the same boilerplate racist fundraising appeal I diaried about last...
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