“... thus men become the architect of his own demise, but for the time, it was good...”

Yup, cowardice and paranoia are very much part of the equation. 

This country’s gun culture is fucking off-the-rails absurd. 

I mean, why not just give the people what they want:

Love both versions - good choice for today, Owen.

Called the Oshkosh P-15, this enormous firetruck... measures about 45 feet long, 10 feet wide and more than 13 feet tall, making it more than one and a half times the size of your friendly neighborhood firetruck.

Your incoming president refers to our Prime Minister as the “governor” of the “51st state”, and threatens to take over our country “by economic force” if necessary. You guys have a massive fire problem, so we naturally send a bunch of firefighting planes and crews to help. A Canadian firefighter and his girlfriend in…

An excellent choice, Erin.

Same same.

To paraphrase a great man.

One of my favorite songs and how depressing that it is so relevant almost 60 years later.

If you ever get a chance to read his book, Ghost Stories - Travels on The Healing Road, do it.

Simply put: ride more, both in terms of frequency and distance. Too much inane nonsense got in the way in 2024 to commute much via motozoom let alone do any decent trips but the year upcoming should be clear of most of the silliness that ran interference.

To be faaaaaaaaaair...

Bradley’s 37 (or something) cars and bikes, each in its own glorious state of (dis)repair, are strewn across the land like Nick Cannon’s children.

That’s why I got one that has an electric yellow lead that you loop around the throttle. 

I have a motorcycle disk lock that I only use when touring. I have had nightmares about forgetting that thing and creating this exact scenario days from home....

As a long time motozoomer, I appreciate anyone with a platform sharing these sorts of things with the broader public. I have responded to this particular message about a half-dozen times and used it myself once when the fuel gauge on my old Seca II decided to start lying to me on a ride through (very rural) Maine.

Good to know. We road trip a lot for various adventures. As such we usually have a good set of tools with us and are pretty self-reliant. I’ll be on the lookout for the helmet on the ground. This is a new one for me. 

You could buy one and load it up with novels from a Hudson News, making it a Runway Fiction Test Rig.