The Aging Rebel

Myrtle Beach Laugh Riot

Myrtle Beach Bike Week is turning to slapstick. If you actually are in the greater North Carolina-South Carolina metropolitan area this May expect to see Keystone Kops, clowns throwing pies and Mel Brooks and Albert Brooks and Woody Allen all zooming up and down the coast in camera trucks. Ne-new La-la-laws? First, you know about [...]

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Vote For Charlie

The helmet law fight continues. Freshman Senator Charlie Janssen introduced a bill (Legislative Bill 200) in the Nebraska State Senate this week to repeal that state’s helmet law. Janssen’s proposed law would let riders who are 21-years-old or older wear anything on their heads that they please when riding a motorcycle. Riders who are between [...]

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Sons Of Silence Slandered

Newspapers from Beirut to Sydney ran think pieces last week examining the persistent problem of well-armed, racist, drug-addled, American bikers who ain’t afraid to die. “The idea that white supremacists could be plotting to kill a black presidential candidate will not seem farfetched to America,” Jacqui Goddard warned readers of The Times of London – [...]

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