By the way, Penasquitos (I can’t find the key for the spanish ~) means “little cliffs”. If you move east down this valley that is exactly what you see on either side.
On the way in this morning, clear but blowing hard. The surf everywhere is like a burnin’ urn a churnin’ soup.
There’s nobody out there – which almost never happens. Usually there is some idiot who will go out and end up headed out to San Clemente island in a rip.
Trying to ride around these late season rain clouds as they blow in off the Pacific. Not the worst wind we have had here this year but a good blow nonetheless.
I am rarely agitated when I ride, but twice today my rear tire slipped out from underneath the bike. I didn’t lose it but I could have – particularly in one section where, if I had fallen, I likely would have skittered out into rush hour traffic and become a human speed-bump. The one that bugged me the most was later on Pacific Coast highway where a gust of wind just blew the whole bike into a slide.
Not a good thing – but it beats fat-assing it in a car any day ….
The US power elite claims we are far away from “peak oil”. This article from the Guardian debunks it all and again highlights why we are really in Iraq. I still don’t understand why we are in Afghanistan other than profiteers make billions; must be a pipeline somewhere?
Some interesting tidbits; Did you know that the US military was the single largest petroleum customer in the world?
I remember in the 1970s when the Feds (Forest Service and BLM, as I recall) were telling all the “green lunatics” in Oregon that timber harvests were sustainable. This was immediately before the complete collapse of the Northwest timber industry due to overcutting. People never learn.
“Something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist.” He suggested looking at socialism in its full historical context. In Madison, Wisconsinin 2009, Zinn said:”Let’s talk about socialism. I think it’s very important to bring back the idea of socialism into the national discussion to where it was at the turn of the [last] century before the Soviet Union gave it a bad name. Socialism had a good name in this country. Socialism had Eugene Debs. It had Clarence Darrow. It had Mother Jones. It had Emma Goldman. It had several million people reading socialist newspapers around the country. Socialism basically said, hey, let’s have a kinder, gentler society. Let’s share things. Let’s have an economic system that produces things not because they’re profitable for some corporation, but produces things that people need. People should not be retreating from the word socialism because you have to go beyond capitalism”
