The TRUTH Why Modern Music Is Awful

The Musket V-Twin - Jay Leno's Garage

I met this guy on at a bike night in late July. He's just like he is on this video. Humble, smart, funny, open and fun to talk to. I originally just wanted to say hello to him because I'd seen part of this video and the next thing I know almost an hour had gone by and we were the last 2 bikes still there. (mine is restored as original 82 Honda Magna V-45). I think what he did here is astounding. You don't meet someone every day who made their own engine. You read that correct ly. He made the engine. He didn't assemble an engine out of parts manufactured by others. He carved molds out of wood and took the molds to a foundry that cast the parts out of aluminum. And then he did it again but made the engine bigger. One has 13,000 miles on it, the other has more. Reliable, clean and leak free, and the sound is just as remarkable as he describes it here. I'd love to see him make a living at this but he says to many people that say they are exited to have ...

Outraging the outrageous outrageousness with the outraged Republicans and Tea Partiers. Redux.

Below is how I described things 7 long years ago. I couldn't then have thought things could get much worse. I guess I was wrong. No one was paying attention. Do I have your attention now? Or better put, do these facts and conclusions have your attention now. I wrote this at a time when I thought if you explained things to people you could change their minds. I turned out to be so completely wrong about that. Confronting people with the facts and Truth makes them feel cornered. For far more people than I would have believed have their opinions ruled by their emotions. Especially the ones that are, can I say, have less gifted brains than others. Often you can't explain things to them that they can understand. Conspiracy becomes their fall back. Once somebody's headed down the road to thinking that facts themselves are corrupted by conspiracy, well what can you do? They think it makes them smarter than you because that they figured out this conspiracy that everybody in...

Arguing Bernie Sanders supporters....

I meant to finish this long ago, right after the Democratic convention when I became, rightfully as it turned out, concerned that the way Bernie supporters talked about Hillary Clinton sounded alarmingly like the way Trump supporters talked. A young woman responded to something I wrote in the comment section of a YouTube page that showed Bernie supporters leaving the arena when Hillary came on stage to speak. They had drank the same coolaid Trump supporters had with the whole false narrative about Hillary that was fact free. When I challenged her to prove she knew what she was talking about, and she couldn't defend her position, she did what Trump supporters do. She went fact free into another rant mentioning she had protested the Iraq war. I think I told her something along the line of "opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one. You are entitled to your own opinion. However, you are NOT entitled to your own facts. You don't know what the "f"you are talkin...

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