Why motorists hate cyclists On the bike on roads in an urban American far from Alaska, I finally discovered why some motorists so hate cyclists. Credit traffic “engineers” who’ve spent decades promoting […]
Moto Jihad
Nannyism
The costly U.S. safety lobby Alaskans might find this hard to believe, but the one of the latest of national dangers comes from people getting out of their cars, trucks and motorhomes […]
Charlie Kirk
And the threat to reason For all of those on social media and elsewhere now offering their views on the vile things, true or untrue, that the late Charlie Kirk might or […]
Liar, liar
And the questions unasked Long, long ago, an already old Alaska adventurer by the name of Dick Griffith met up with a group of Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic racers standing on […]
Passions
The strange things we love With every passing year, the tidal marshes at the head of Turnagain Arm remind me more of how physically brutal that which I love to do so […]
Journalism’s failure
The knowledge gap Many in these unUnited States today believe the big problem with American journalism is political bias, and that is a problem. But the even bigger problem is laziness, ignorance […]
Shrinking or sinking?
Can an ever smaller Iditarod survive? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book titled “Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska’s Iditarod Trail” that the Iditarod refused to sell […]
Whose fault?
Musher blamed for dog death As part of accepting at least some responsibility for the death of a dog in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the Iditarod Trail Committee last […]
Our dying hearts
Americans even unhealthier than you thought Unless you’ve been walking around with your eyes closed, the general decline in health in these unUnited States should have long been obvious in the abundance […]
National decay
The Make America Fit Again dilemma Lost in the fog of a cultural war that has been raging for years now in these UnUnited States of Amercia are some of the biggest […]
