Klussendorf Blog: March 2008

Democracy ain't pretty

I don’t like to get politically divisive, but US Rep. Michelle Bachman is a Right-Wingnut. While she is decidedly anti-choice on the “big issue”, she is solidly pro-choice on the controversy regarding a phase-out of incandescent bulbs. She’s introduced a bill to prevent the 2012 phase-out of incandescent bulbs.

The human race’s connection to global warming is, to her, “voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.” She probably feels the same about any published, peer-reviewed scientific research.

How can Minnesota elect Al Franken AND Michelle Bachman, Paul Wellstone AND Norm Coleman? Well, democracy ain’t pretty. That’s for sure.

Battle Abbey

Best things about a week at the Abbey.

Great to get away for a week. To have nothing to do before breakfast but stretch. Nothing to hurry back for but afternoon tea. And now that they have a new two-holer outhouse, the biggest worry is how much new snow we’ll have in the morning. Well, and Timmy got caught up in a small (1.5) avalanche on one uptrack. Swim, Timmy-Three-Tubes, swim!

Note fracture line above and Tim’s little noggin’ sticking out of snow on left.

I could ski. Due to good conditions, patient partners and my unexplained ability to “point ‘em down”, I skied a number of lines I hadn’t before. Gmoser Pitch, Never Never Basin, Kitchen Envy and a few others were nice highlights.

The butt-clenching entry to Kitchen Envy.