aging gracefully into a peloton routine

As an engineer, I need to be graded on the curve.

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Liberal - which currently makes me a conservative Democrat. A good idea will persist because it is still a good idea. You should not have to expend effort conserving a good idea.

"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"Each generation of Americans has a rendezvous with a different reality. The answers of one generation become the questions of the next generation." Ted Kennedy

"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." - Salman Rushdie

I believe in the detachment of Buddhism and I believe in having a party with bonfires every six weeks like the pagan Celts. The two thoughts are combined nicely in the Potlatch traditions of the Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest.

Middle Kids, The Beths, Skeggs, Tired Lion, Violent Soho, WAAX, Gang of Youths

"Oh lads, get over the ball and run it again." Leahy

"You're so occupied with what other persons are occupied with, and vice versa, that you've become, what you thought was dumb, a fraction of the sum." - Built to Spill