A New Horn

The horn on my FJR-1300 recently failed and had to be replaced. In a way that was a good thing, as I never really liked the stock horn. It sounded too dinky and was often ignored by car drivers. After doing some research I settled on the PIAA dual-tone horn.

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Vacationing in Your Backyard

All the images in this post, and many more, are available in this Google Photos album. We’ve lived in San Mateo County for over 25 years…but there are still large parts of it which we haven’t explored. Driven by, sure. But when you “live in” an area, you tend not

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Get Involved…Before It’s Too Late

Yesterday His Rapist Fraudster Convicted Criminal Former Majesty told a bunch of fundamentalist Christians they really needed to vote for him this fall…but if they did so, they wouldn’t have to vote in 2028 because he would fix things up so perfectly to their liking there’d be no need to.

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Yet Another Post Hoc Error

The other day I was repairing some stuff on my motorcycle which had been damaged during a recent big service. Nothing serious, but it required I reroute some cables going to the battery. When I was preparing to take the bike in to get the clutch replaced (again, nothing serious,

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Oh Those Sneaky Republicans!

Apparently, Republican leaders are now out to undermine and terminate research into how misinformation is propagated and affects people. All under the banner of “it’s an attack on conservative views!” Ridiculous. If an opinion or statement is erroneous or misinformed, it’s erroneous or misinformed. It has nothing to do with

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Busting the Lost Cause Myth: Bobbie Lee

I often refer to the Lost Cause myth — the story spun by leaders of the Confederacy after their bid to destroy the country was defeated on the battlefield — as one of the few examples in history I know of where the losers got to frame what happened. Normally

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