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“Would you shut up, man.” Joe Biden

As noted earlier, Eau Claire has two rivers running through it, the most noted one being the Chippewa, the other being one of the three Eau Claire Rivers in Wisconsin. You tell the three apart by noting which river they are a tributary of. Our Eau Claire river is the Eau Claire River (tributary ofContinue reading “Defined Rivers II”

Not much going on around here at the moment. I haven’t been feeling well and the weather has turned cool and damp, so I’m staying inside and reading a lot. This post from today’s Guardian on the current fragile state of our democracy was a good, but somber, run down on where we’re at asContinue reading “Good Post On The State Of Our Democracy”

Hi, Welcome to the Driftless Area. The Driftless Area got it name because it escaped being covered in glaciers in the Pleistocene and then covered in the glaciers “drift” as the glaciers retreated. The lack of glaciers and plentiful streams and rivers in the area also meant that The Driftless Area didn’t get squashed flatContinue reading “Welcome To The Driftless Area”

According to Historian Modris Eksteins one of the marks of the Modern Age is that when it comes to events and things how one feels about the event or thing and how one interacted with it is just as important as the event/thing itself. I tend to agree with Eksteins on this. However, this inclusionContinue reading “About Things And Modernity”

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