Short fiction by Stuart Greenbaum The black 4x4 pickup was rumbling along at 60-plus when it careened over the protective metal guardrail, gathering a solid two or three seconds of airtime. Mid-flight, the super duty Ford F-350 clipped a low…
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This is worth repeating, because it’s only getting worse. The damage is done. By the automobile. The most destructive, harmful, wasteful, aggravating invention in history. We took a major wrong turn when we committed to travel primarily by single-occupancy vehicles…
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This typical scenario: You’re driving on a downtown street, pull up to a red light, flick up your indicator and prepare to turn right. There’s no cross traffic, no pedestrians, but you pause anyways. In your rearview mirror you see…
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Like all epiphanies, the idea to learn to play the harmonica came to me while stuck in L.A. freeway traffic. What an incredible waste of time, I would think as traffic inched along. I should be doing something productive, something…
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Extrapolation can be remarkably effective in influencing public behavior. By estimating a dramatic future result on the basis of known facts, politicians, economists, environmentalists, insurance salespeople among others attempt to bolster their arguments for changing attitudes or actions. Extrapolation can…
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