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“It has been a been a rough couple of weeks for the man who wears the pointy hat“, according to Salon’s This week in Crazy: The pope. The Catholic Church is drowning in scandal. New information about the horrors of the ever-expanding child sex abuse scandal and cover-up that Joseph Ratzinger perpetrated for decades continues [...]
Connect the Dots is a Bay Area nonprofit that helps other nonprofits by disseminating environmental sustainability practices. Maybe you work with nonprofits, maybe you work at a nonprofit- I have done both. My experience is that there are dedicated people who are committed to their cause, often to the exclusion of other issues those same [...]
Have you made your Earth Day plans yet? I’m sure they involve riding your bike to some awesome party which will renew your faith in humanity and inspire you as never before. I know that’s what I’ll be doing. I’m having trouble deciding, given the wonderful array of things to do to celebrate Earth Day [...]
WikiLeaks.org has just released this sickening footage of the U.S. military slaughtering a Reuters journalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and over a dozen other innocent civilians in Baghdad. The video shows very inhumane behavior by the soldiers, joking about running over corpses, crudely cursing, laughing at the dead and falsely claiming that Noor-Eldeen’s camera is a weapon. Please be warned, this footage is very graphic and disturbing.
Photo Courtesy Zero Motorcycles On Saturday, Hollywood Electrics hosted a Zero test ride event. I was eager to ride the Zero S in a less controlled environment than the access roads of Laguna Seca Raceway, where I last rode one for Gas 2.0. Chris Morro gave a technical review of the whole 2010 lineup last [...]
