It's Bike to Work Day, but I drove to the office instead, for the first time in weeks.
Books tend to migrate over the weeks, and I had a bunch that needed to get back to the office, and others that needed to come home. I could have done it a few at a time on the bike, but I'm trying to gear up for summer writing, and I wanted to just get it done.
Plus I needed to bring my academic robe and hood back to the office, where they live when I'm not at commencement. They've already been back and forth in the bike pannier a couple of times, and were getting wrinkled.
I've been mostly traveling at human-powered paces lately -- on my bike, on foot. And sitting in my car today, it suddenly seemed to me that enclosing oneself in a little metal and plastic box and hurling oneself across the countryside at 60 or 70 miles an hour ... is insanity.
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Last night I had the strangest dream I've ever had before: I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war.
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When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.
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