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Why we’re getting stupider

posted: July 26, 2024

tl;dr: Old man yells at cloud...

A look back at Easy Rider

posted: July 18, 2024

tl;dr: Watching Easy Rider today is like opening a time capsule...

Great motorcycle roads: Cape Royal Road at the North Rim of Grand Canyon

posted: July 13, 2024

tl;dr: How often do you find a great motorcycle road with views of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World?...

Movie review: The Bikeriders

posted: July 6, 2024

tl;dr: An unflinching look at how a gang forms, grows, and evolves, not always for the better...

A fortunate series of events leading to my new Harley

posted: June 22, 2024

tl;dr: How being in H.O.G. helped me buy a 2023 CVO Road Glide...

Book review: The Best American Essays 2022, ed. by Alexander Chee

posted: June 16, 2024

tl;dr: An above-average essay anthology for both quality and quantity...

Not everything can be fixed

posted: June 8, 2024

tl;dr: The reasons that some products just cannot be repaired, no matter what...

Why your refrigerator won’t tell you the temperature

posted: June 2, 2024

tl;dr: You might think your refrigerator’s top priority is keeping your food at the desired temperature, but it isn’t...

Performance review: David Sedaris at the Orpheum Theater in Phoenix, May 10, 2024

posted: May 25, 2024

tl;dr: A pleasant evening of Sedaris reading Sedaris while the audience laughs and sometimes cries along...

Parsing Francis Collins’s comments on what happened in D.C.

posted: May 4, 2024

tl;dr: Collins openly states the main error made in the U.S. government’s pandemic response...