Silverback66

Silverback66
Location
Harrison, Arkansas, USA
Birthday
March 23
Bio
No one has ever challenged my claim to be the only State Supreme Court Justice (by appointment) ever to win a national motorcycle road race

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JUNE 29, 2011 9:24PM

Race report, 4/26/08

The only thing damaged was my ego, but by the middle of the afternoon on Saturday, that particular organ was not particularly tumescent. 
 
The good news was that there was one race before the next after I crashed.  I was using Jason Swan's wire brush to… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 4, 2010 12:17AM

Race report 4/20/08

I can still do it.  Sorta.   
 
We had all day Saturday to perform the familiar loading-up rituals, dormant since last May, so of course we ran late.  Echo stomped sideways in his cage when he saw the luggage being loaded, but fell silent when he… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 3, 2010 11:55PM

Race report 5/19/07

There was enough hang time for two different kinds of regret.
 
The first was specific.  Dr. Jim had made it pretty clear that my 12-day-old open hernia repair really had no business on the race track, not that it really required a medical genius to reach that… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 3, 2010 11:47PM

Race report 5/20/07

The race weekend at Hallett didn't end exactly as I'd planned it
 
Hallett 51807 036.
 
 
The typical long story will follow, but it will take awhile since I'm typing with one hand.
 
Hallett 51807 048
 
 
 
The inventory: displaced fractures of the… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 3, 2010 11:30PM

Ghosts of solstice past

It's hard to get in the holiday mood, sorting through last year's outdoor Christmas lights, when the temperature out on the Ozarks deck is just north of 70, even with the smells of Ruth's 16-pounder wafting up from the kitchen, and our newest residents, the Tiny Tiger Twins,… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 3, 2010 11:23PM

Fools and tools

Anyone who promotes tax breaks for billionaires, and is not a billionaire, has been played for a fool and used as a tool.  As is always the case, the fools think themselves wise, and the tools think themselves free.
 
There is an immutable law in the physical world… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 7:24PM

I want to pay more tax.

 
I'm sick to death of the whining of rich old white folks who don't want to pay their taxes.  It's an embarassment.
 
For no virtue other than our having been born in this time and place, average Americans of the 21st Century enjoy a level of… Read full post »
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