CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Sad times as the world convulses in the final breaths of the failing Anerican empire

This is the MAGA paradise you were promised

For years, the worst outcomes of measles were all but unknown in the U.S. Now they look inevitable.

The Deaths Doctors Never Thought They’d See in the U.S.

For years, the worst outcomes of measles were all but unknown in America. Now they look inevitable.

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

@jalefkowit

Yes, hard to use but at least it's completely insecure and subject to exploitation by criminals in every nation on earth.

This is why we can't have nice things ...

Representative Sam Graves (R-MO), the chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, already said as much, stating:

"It’s going to be a traditional highway bill — that means building roads and bridges, laying asphalt, pouring concrete….We’re not going to be spending money on murals and train stations or bike paths or walking paths."

#cycling

US bike infrastructure faces major funding cuts; SRAM, Shimano, Trek and others sound the alarm

More than 1,100 organisations urge Congress to protect federal funding for bike and active transportation infrastructure

Cycling Weekly (www.cyclingweekly.com)

Law 1: Everyone always underestimates the number of stupid people

Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person

Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or group of people when he or she does not benefit and may even suffer losses.

Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the destructive power of stupid individuals.

Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

--Carlo Cipolla

@tzimmer_history

Here's to the 'better angels"

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

I'd like to see C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate some day but it probably won't happen.