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Three periods of time I have ridden motorcycles. I have been driven to them by poverty. Any given quantity of money will buy a better motorcycle than it will buy a car. Most motorcycles get better fuel mileage than do most cars. Most motorcycles are less costly to operate than are most cars. I have found that bikes go better with poverty than do automobiles. Far too often in my life, the car is but a costly lawn ornament as I again walk or take a bus to work. I am now of ancient years and in my third biker age. Way back in nineteen eighty I went back to bikes after being disgusted and financially ruined once more by used cars. I bought a new Honda, a Series 2 CB 750F (The twin cam version that out handled, for that very year, the Ducati SS 750 Desmo). As I studied dealers and deals I noticed that there was a non official group meeting nearby. I thought to myself that as soon as I had brought my skills back up to par I would go there and se what was going on. I did. I found that motorcyclists were wonderful … Continue reading →

Autism Spectrum Disorders are on the rise. Just a few short years ago we accepted numbers of approximately 1 in 250 children born. Recently the numbers bantered about have been 1 in 100 or 1 in 88 0or such. The most recent number from the CDC that I am aware of is 1 in 50. I have looked up the statistics from the approximate time that I was originally diagnosed and have found them also reported within a range; that range being from 1 in 25,000 to 1 in 10,000. Whichever numbers we choose to accept, there certainly has been a huge increase in autism diagnosis during my life time. Now, many of us with autism are loathe to believe any hypothesis other than pure genetics. I understand this viewpoint and sympathize with all who hold it true. If I am as I am due to genetics, then I may be anything at all; perhaps even a new wave of human evolution. On the other hand, to accept any environmental causation of autism implies that some of us, perhaps even I, are damaged. Being autistic is difficult, more difficult than being a “normal” person. Being autistic and having to wonder … Continue reading →

I have not blogged much during the past week. I have been having a troubling flare of my not known but highly suspected neurological disorder. (This is a Zone One probability.) (I am disordered, what else is new?) This issue actually scares me, if it is what I believe it to be it could easily land me in a Hover Round (I think these are probably really neeto devices and if ever I need one I want one. I do not want to want one) (That sounds like a lyric by “Cheap Trick!), or in a grave. Here is a funny thing. Whenever a strange thing hits me and which I think is probably neurological in nature I google the symptom(s). Each and every time the search takes me to pages describing the underlying trouble that I consider to be a strong probability (Zone One). Here is another funny thing. I follow as near as I can (Given that I lack funds to see doctors most of the time.) and the flare follows about the course that one would expect. So, I am running an upped daily dose of Prednisone, which is indicated for persons having my current trouble. I … Continue reading →

This is related to my article using the “F Bomb” and I am still worked up into a lather. I am in general tired of seeing children adultified by our society. We use our children, as stated by one advocate for something or another, as “agents of change”. I dislike this for two reasons: 1. Children are not yet endowed with wisdom. * To cause a child to become an activist is to cause a young person without any philosophical centre to take part in YOUR desired activism. You may think it is wonderful to involve children in YOUR activism, but probably would not appreciate some skinheaded racist involving his children in HIS activism. Political philosophy is for adults, people. To raise a child to be good, to be honest, to be generous, to accept others is good. To foresee them to believe specific political points is indoctrination, no matter who does it. Further, this activism is another case of thinking that children ought to be involved in legal contracts and obligations. That is barbarous. 2. The child’s mind simply must be disturbed by concepts of: pollution, economic troubles, wars, civil unrest, homelessness, sex**. . . Why? Cannot we allow … Continue reading →

I just read a CBS on line news article which states that two seven year old boys have been suspended by their Suffolk County School district for using pencils as guns, making “bang” noises. This school district has a zero tolerance policy on weapons. Weapons, zero tolerance. Pencils and “bang” sounds are not weapons. The only thing making these pencils in conjunction with, “bang” sounds is within people’s minds! Certainly the boys thought that the pencils and, “Bang” sounds were good enough for a game of shoot ‘em up within the boy’s minds*; will they be punished for thoughts? How long until brain scan technology now under development is used to peer into all our minds? When that happens, will any of us be prosecuted for the thought of weapons when we are insulted or fired or harassed on the basis of zero tolerance extending into our gray matter?** The actual weapons being zero tolerenced here were actually those within the minds of the school system officials. Those people took pencils, bleeding pencils, along with boys making, “bang” sounds to be actual weapons suitable for banning and for expulsion of the boys from school.*** How did such fucking crazy people … Continue reading →