Car-divorced & glad of it!
In 1997, I cut the umbilicus of car ownership as a step out of car culture. I'd heard Jane Holtz Kay's critique of car culture had been published but didn't get my hands on a copy until after I'd gotten rid of my car. I wouldn't take back my choice to go car free, and now I've set up a tribute to the book that offered so much validation to what I'd done.
Amazon.com's filing to circulate petitions for a measure undoing California legislature's attempt to collect tax on sales to state residents highlights the need for voters to know about measures circulating for signatures to qualify for the statewide ballot. Whatever your view may be of Amazon.com's use of the citizen initiative process to get its interests minded, you may agree that informed voters are much more likely to screen out special interest wish list legislation before it qualifies as a ballot proposition...
Squidoo Lenses by Don_McCyclist - Feed Preview This list is also available as an RSS feed too. 1. What My Dad Taught Me About Eco-Friendly Shaving Watching my dad shave--before a forest of whiskers took root on my chin--showed me some ways to shave costs and whiskers while keeping my shaving's ecological cost low. Meantime consumer culture was evolving new fashions for safety razors and wet shaving, and they were about a throw-away ethic, c...Fashion & Beauty - Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:44:11 2. Modesto Rider...
Don McCyclist brings years of California voting experience to a new page dedicated to empowering citizens for better deciding which petitions to put initiatives on the ballot to sign. Withholding signatures from bad laws can preempt them, or at least force special interest sponsors to pay more to qualify them. Reviewing this page periodically could lead to better choices about signing or not signing petitions.
Here's a roundup of lensmaster Don_McCyclist's work on Squidoo. He'll be famous the day there's a lens at this link he didn't author!
Squidoo can sometimes grow on people who use it to publish on the web and make a little money if people read pages or buy featured merchandise. Here's the story of one feverish dream during a career transition for someone who has created a collection of pages on the Squidoo.com affiliate marketing domain.
There's a resource for ecologically conscious shavers on Squidoo.com now, and it's also a celebration of how generations of men pass on shaving customs. It's a story of how one man went back towards shaving the way his granddad did out of dissatisfaction with plastic-heavy cartridge shaving, and it also features a recommendation for people who want to lower their ecological footprint but still prefer cartridge shaving.
McCyclist's lenses appear to be centered on Modesto, California. Samples include one on Modesto's Ranking in Forbes 2011 list of most miserable cities and another about a round robin present to area non-profits by folk singer John McCutcheon. Another appears to be an autobiographical romp in some other part of California. Then there's one on a Modesto area charity rider's pedaling the AIDS/Lifecycle fundraising event. One with no specific geographic theme focuses on razors and shaving in ecologically favorable ways...
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