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Maybe I Should Give Up Motorcycles
Motorcycles & Mayhem, Freedom & Fire Kate Sjostrand 7/24/26 Motorcycles & Mayhem, Freedom & Fire Kate Sjostrand 7/24/26

Maybe I Should Give Up Motorcycles

Last year, a woman turned left in front of me and nearly killed me. She didn't get a ticket. This year, I got a mandatory court appearance for riding the way I do to stay alive. Somewhere along the way, we've decided it's acceptable to endanger motorcyclists, but apparently not acceptable to be one.

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Standards Are Not Cruelty
Freedom & Fire, Personal Essays & Reflections Kate Sjostrand 1/21/26 Freedom & Fire, Personal Essays & Reflections Kate Sjostrand 1/21/26

Standards Are Not Cruelty

Somewhere along the way, enforcing laws became “heartless” and lowering standards got rebranded as compassion. A society without shared rules isn’t kind, it’s chaotic. This is about public decency, selective enforcement, and why refusing to talk about facts is destroying any chance of real discourse.

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