‘Latvia has the highest drunk driving rate in all of Europe. Under a new law, the Latvian government can seize the cars of drunk drivers and sell or donate them….’
— via Gizmodo
“I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career… I am the one to call your bluff, & this is my climate.” —Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
‘Are huskies at their happiest running hundreds of miles a week, as mushers maintain? Or, as animal rights activists insist, are they victims of callous human ambition, sometimes required to endure unfathomable hardship? The conflict has embroiled … the Iditarod … in a fight that could change the sport forever—and, if some have their way, maybe even lead to its demise…’
— via GQ