Today I filled in the City of Kansas City, Missouri, bike survey. It smelled like another hired-consultant in the bushes. I suppose they want the “pulse of the city” on bikes and riding bikes. The survey writers limited the questions and responses in such a way to say, really, nothing…
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Jim,I’m very glad to have you around. I apologize for not returning your message earlier. I’ve been very busy lately. Some of my work has been good, a lot of it a pain in the ass. To answer your question: I have not been at ironwork lately, but not because…
Leave a CommentCharlie,I fear that the capitalist social organizing paradigm offers few, if any solutions for climate change and global warming. Capitalism-particularly corporate neocapitalism–purports to solve the problem with consumption. We trust that somehow we can buy our way out of this situation. But the greenest solution is the least profitable and, perhaps, offers no…
Leave a CommentBillie, Nothing will fuck up your writing more than academic writing. I read some stories I wrote long ago, and while they were imitative and narrow, the writing in them far outclasses anything I ever wrote for college. Ever. I first went into history because the writing people at UMKC…
Leave a CommentDavid,My parents moaned about how “kids these days” weren’t like them. People of my generation gripe the same way. Conservatives promote the status quo and call that rebellion. In economic life we mistake innovation (Steve Jobs) with revolution (radical feminism). We confuse graphic art and design for independent creative expression.…
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