Paul Lite

Loved seeing all my favorite faces together in this bubble chart by Anisota.

Nice video about Victoria’s 🚲transformation. I’m so glad we visited there for a few days last summer.

Does the cold not bother your eyes when you ride?

Have you ever considered creating a List or two? Few here seem to use them but I feel that they really aid me in curating my experience.

In fact, I won’t even follow a new account unless their content fits within one of my lists.

I have 0 patience for wading through Mutuals, Discover, etc.

STLT is one of my all time favorites. It is indeed a “perfect” story so it’s hard for me to imagine what could be added. I was even somewhat apprehensive to watch the movie version (would they ruin it?) but it too felt perfect.

You were definitely between a rock and a hard place.

Indiana House Republicans finally dropped their “draft” congressional map, and shocker — it’s less a map and more a crime scene outline of democracy. Every jagged line screams, “How do we keep power even when voters hate us?”

Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen by Teri Kanefield This is the full text of a book that I am offering for free. Barnes and Noble Kobo Amazon Google Books Apple Books (through your app) It’s on Goodreads. Or you can download a PDF by clicking here. Why...

Make it a FREE book.

Making it free meant I had to do the publishing work myself because publishers want to make money. They’re funny that way.

It’s also a YouTube series.

You can find links to the free book here: terikanefield.com/whyextremism...

It's on the major platforms.

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Today’s 30F temperature was getting close to my biking threshold but I realized this morning, riding into the breeze in my best winter kit, that really only my eyeballs were cold. Does anyone have goggle recommendations for a cyclist that wears Rx eyeglasses?

I’m old enough to remember “One Day at a Time”, also set along I-69.

I-69 was started in southern Indiana just months before the The Middle premiered in 2009! Whew.

keep digging WRTV

Indiana House returning next week to address redistricting; Senate to join Dec. 8 • Indiana Capital Chronicle Indiana House members will return to the Statehouse next week in an apparent attempt to force action on President Donald Trump’s demands for congressional redistricting in the state.

Welp. Looks like the cheaters might get their way in Indiana after all.

This Congressional redistricting nonsense is an act of desperation by a flailing, deeply unpopular President and a failing, lackey Governor.

Some shots from the talented Doug McSchooler of the Safe Streets Protest at College Ave/Mass Ave intersection where pedestrian Brandon Breedlove was killed by a drunk driver in March 2024 #indianapolis #visionzero mirrorindy.org/photos-peopl...

I read the article beginning to end. Thank you for the gift link. This is the quote I'll remember:

“One day he [Trump] sat on the plane with me [RFKjr]. We were talking about Syria, and he drew a map of the Mideast for me. And it was a perfect map,"

I just saw this meme - thought I'd share. bsky.app/profile/btar...

A lake with a causeway on a crystal clear day

The trash picked up along the causeway in a bag on top of a trash can. Metal sculpture is in the background overlooking the lake and causeway.

Beautiful day to cycle in #Indy’s Eagle Creek Park - and a good day to pick up litter along the reservoir causeway. I’ve noticed over the years that some litterer is usually considerate enough to have tossed out a plastic bag to assist me in toting out the trash.

Thanks for sharing these very interesting photos and information. While it strays in places, the series remains faithful to Candice Millard’s excellent book, “Destiny of the Republic”, upon which the series is based. It is frightening how the course of history can be influenced by a lone madman.

My family spent our Saturday evening binging on Netflix’s “A Man on the Inside”. Its wonderful ensemble cast left us laughing and even tearing-up just a bit. Season 2 builds wonderfully on Season 1. I’m reposting a very thoughtful review of the series.

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article) This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

Here’s a gift link to an amazing article in NYTimes...

"Forget mysterious dark matter and the inexplicable accelerating expansion of the universe; the bicycle represents a far more embarrassing hole in the accomplishments of physics." m.b. 2013

I see that this book won’t be available until Feb-2026.

N71Z Britt Airways Fairchild Swearingen SA-226TC Metro II N71Z Britt Airways Fairchild Swearingen SA-226TC Metro II photographed at Chicago O'Hare (ORD / KORD) by Demo Borstell

Well, one comes to mind - Terre Haute-based Britt Airways. In the 1980s, as a 20-something, I made dozens of teeth-clenching, ass-puckering, business flights on their 19-seat Fairchild Metroliners between Terre Haute and O'Hare. Each disembarkation felt like an exhilarating victory over death!😅

Beat me to it!

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard and also her book Hero of the Empire about Churchill and the Boar War.

The plot felt eerily similar to today: ‘others’ are the enemy, rewards for blind loyalty, pay to play, kick-backs, and of course there were the rallies.

Me learning, just now, that my recent birthday was a meme.

I saw your maps on display at the event.

“Fever in the Heartland” by Timothy Egan should be required reading for all Hoosiers. Thanks to @edfujawa.bsky.social for recommending it to me.

On my return ride from the memorial, it was jarring to see this blatant example of traffic violence along the B&O Bike Trail. A vehicle must have lost control at high speed, leaving 10th Street, and plunging across the separated B&O Trail crashing through a large section of wooden rail fence.