Arthur Jacobson: Baja ArizonaDown South of The Gila River(Untitled)- August 18, 2004 Test. To read the rest go to home page Once a year motorcycle magazines treat us to a retrospective on the six, or eight, or ten best motorcycles of the year. This is all very specialized hardware: Crotch rockets, moto-cross dirt bashers, enduros, motorcycles to ride from Cleveland to Brazil, bikes to cruise to the local saloon, and luxo-tourers like two wheeled cars for America&146;s endless superslabs.http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/17.html#a426 (Untitled)- August 12, 2004 Charley Reese, Conservative A friend recently sent me a copy of one of Charley Reese&146;s columns. Reese is billed by the King Features folks who syndicate his pieces as a conservative. If all conservatives wrote as well, and as reasonably, we might raise the level of political discourse. I have searched for a link to this column but failed to find it so copyright be damned just this once: Vote For A Man, Not A Puppetby Charley Reese Americans should realize that if they vote for President...http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/12.html#a421 (Untitled)- August 6, 2004 Poet Phyllis McGinley&133; &133;lived just a "short walk from the station" in 1950. Her poems, many of which appeared in The New Yorker, are as good a social history of the American suburbs as your are likely to find on a bedside table. Together they are not a sociological tome but rather a generous, if skeptical, nod in the direction of a society that is now as dead as a coffin nail. I was reminded of her poetry by my memory of Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy Here, in part, is what she...http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/06.html#a416 (Untitled)- August 6, 2004 I Forgot To Mention&133; &133;that I went to a Democracy For America (Dean) Meetup on Wednesday. There were at least thirty people in attendance and all of them were actively working in some way or other to get John Kerry elected. A good sign. Also a good sign was the fact there was general agreement that after the election we were not, as Progressives, going to go away. Feet were going to be held to the fire. I thought it was most interesting that seven or eight of the folks there on Wednesday.http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/06.html#a415 (Untitled)- August 4, 2004 Grizzly Bears Just outside of Salmon, Idaho a roadside sign said: No Grizzly Bear Re-Introduction! It seems that when ol&146; Griz becomes a problem in Yellowstone he&146;s anesthetized and bundled off to the mountainous camping areas just west of the Salmon River. This practice annoys the locals, who don&146;t much fancy camping in territory where they are not at the top of the food chain. I was reminded of a suggestion floated by the Alaska Fish and Game Department. Warning In light...http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/04.html#a412 (Untitled)- August 3, 2004 Arizona Republicans Caught in Electoral Fraud. It may not mean much to folks living elsewhere, but here in Baja Arizona Democrats are pleased to learn that what they have always believed is true: Our ultra conservative Republicans are simply sanctimonious fakers. The &145;Pubs are forever complaining about voter fraud committed by non-citizens. As a matter of fact no election has ever been put in question by evidence that non-documented immigrants have voted, attempted to vote, or otherwise...http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/03.html#a411 (Untitled)- August 3, 2004 The Language of Cats I seem to have been thinking about language and linguistic philosophy lately, probably sparked by something I read at "What happens when you tell a lie" At any rate, I remember hearing or reading that cats have a surprisingly large repertory of "vocalizations." Something like fifty grumbles, rumbles, chatterings, yowls chirps and meows. My cat, Mr. Squeak, is seldom quiet. He is a sixteen-pound lumbering vocalizer. Even walking around the house he seems to be commenting to..http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/02.html#a410 (Untitled)- August 2, 2004 The Meaning of Life There are people whose lives are tormented by the question, "What is the meaning of Life" If only they could answer that question! Then, they believe, they would be freed of the sense that their lives were soul-crushingly dull and aimless. We probably all ask this question of ourselves sometime&133;a time when we scream out in frustration, "What the fuck is the point" Some few of us finally decide that there is no point and bid a fond farewell to the emptiness. I have always.http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/02.html#a409 (Untitled)- August 2, 2004 Defense of Marriage The people of Missouri are about to go to the polls to vote on whether to amend their constitution to define marriage as existing only between a man and a woman. Kent Ostrander of the Family Foundation in Kentucky is reported to be watching the results of this vote very carefully. Ostrander argues that (are you ready for this) passing this amendment is crucial if we are to save children from being raised in motherless or fatherless families! Two comments. First, this is.http://blogs.salon.com/0001919/categories/bajaArizona/2004/08/02.html#a408 |