Tag: Society
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I Finally Bought an EV
We needed a car – one of ours died. Our goal was to find an around town car with low operating & maintenance costs. preferably lightly used and domestically manufactured. A used Chevy Bolt fit the bill. Many have had replaced and re-warrantied battery packs; they have decent range and are reasonably priced. At $0.16…
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Sand Creek, 1864
Today’s quotes: “Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! … I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s heaven to kill Indians. … Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice. Col. John Chivington, Civil War hero, Methodist pastor. And: “Men, I…
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“The men are to be slain whenever and wherever they can be found…
Today’s quote: “The men are to be slain whenever and wherever they can be found; if they beg for peace, their chiefs and twenty of their principal men must come to Santa Fe to have a talk here…” Brigadier General James H. Carleton, 1862 We spent a few hours at Fort Union National Monument, which…
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A Tuskegee Airmen Memorial
While wandering around in South Carolina we ran across a small memorial to WWII’s Tuskegee Airmen, the first black Americans to be trained and deployed as fighter pilots. This is significant because at the time, in spite of prior demonstration of their ability to fight like white men in the Revolutionary, Civil and Indian wars,…
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Thoughts on the Desert Southwest
Driving the one hundred miles of uninterrupted Mojave Desert from 29 Palms to Parker I spun up a few thoughts about the southwest. I’m a cheesehead who graduated to Minnesota, so I have no ‘born-with’ knowledge or notions about the desert. I first traveled the southwest a couple of decades ago, and at the time…
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Another End of the Road…
Our next ‘end of the road’ was a day trip to Cypremort Point State Park on the Gulf. We wanted to see the Gulf and put our toes in the water. The blast of cold that’s running through the south meant that the temps barely hit 50F. Cold north winds made it a poor day…
Michael Janke 