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Lazy Cyclist: Quick Guide

Tuesday 20 December 2011 Comments off

This is part of the series on my lazy cycling habits. Currently, it is a draft, and reads like a guide. But that will be changed as I find time. Draft This is a quick summary of what is ahead. For the meat of what is being talked about, and the reasons behind them, read [...]

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Barefoot College. Precarity. Charity Businesses.

Monday 12 December 2011 Comments off

It may not obvious immediately, but, to me, this is the intersection of many of my thoughts with respect to education/schooling; precarity and the end of employment; and aid/charity as a business. More on this later. Note that there is not much difference between what these women do, and what your local Best Buy, or [...]

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Lazy Cyclist: Who This Is For.

Sunday 11 December 2011 Comments off

This is part of the series on my lazy cycling habits. Currently, it is a draft, and reads like a guide. But that will be changed as I find time. Draft OK, let’s see who might be interested in my kind of cycling: On and off, you have thought of biking to work or taking [...]

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The Lazy Cyclist

Sunday 11 December 2011 Comments off

One of the many drafts which has been sitting around my place is for a book describing my approach to cycling. Like with a gazillion other things which I am supposed to do, it is likely to sit there for a point in time which shall never come. I actually have to earn a living! [...]

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David Suzuki Stands Up for Mud and Dirt

Friday 9 December 2011 Comments off

David Suzuki makes a firm stand for the virtues of letting your kids play in mud and dirt. Well it’s high time someone did. The tyranny of education and electronic isolation must end. Well, methinks! (Note: no comma after “education”!) He also talks about the similar need in adults (“biophilia”). I call it the urge [...]

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Now, Even a Degree Is of No Use!

Wednesday 7 December 2011 Comments off

They used to tell you to get a “college” degree. Now that even that fraud bears no fruit, they blame you for getting yourself into debt with a useless degree. The thing is though, even professional degrees are mostly useless!

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Medical Research and the Cancer Scam

Sunday 4 December 2011 Comments off

Just now, I watched yet another cancer specialist recommending lifestyle changes when asked about cancer prevention. http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/mon-november-28-2011-siddhartha-mukherjee I wonder if they know that they are lying. What was the Upton Sinclair line, about it being difficult to convince a man about something on which his income depends? Years ago, CBC’s Wendy Mesley made the documentary [...]

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