How We Are Getting More Polarized

This is about how search engines such as google and networking sites such as facebook select for us what we will see based on what we have clicked on before. It appears to me that this limits our exposure to novel ideas, and funnels us into thought tunnels, ie dogma. Interestingly, I receive political ads from every direction, perhaps because I have found good candidates on all sides. I click both ways. On many spectrums. I wonder what google and facebook are NOT showing me.

Trip Report: Hood River and Boat Review: Fluid Detox

The first couple years I lived here I didn’t boat that much. I didn’t have the equipment needed for winter-spring/wet season boating (a drysuit), so I paddled only often enough to remind myself that paddling is miserable when you’re cold and stiff, and no more. Then late this winter I met a fella at a putin who hooked me up with a deal on a new drysuit, and we’ve been off to the races ever since. I’m getting to run some of the stuff that you never hear about from anywhere far away. There are so many rivers here, and the all share a certain character that is based on their course through and over basalt. It’s different from granite or sandstone. I’ve been boating a bit in Northern Idaho, too. I just might move there. But back to Oregon.
( this report originally written up to send to my old paddling club back in Tennessee )