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INGLEWOOD JACK WROTE:
the reality is that racism (and sexism and every other kind of -ism) is still widespread and rampant, but we're just better at not saying things out loud or acting on it like they were 50 years ago.
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I don't think we'd have a Muslim Mayor, a black President and an Asian/Indian Governor in Louisiana, all the result of secret ballots where the majority have the opportunity to indicate secreted biases, if the environment were truly the same as 50 years ago.
It's not utopian but its genuinely different and much improved. More to go through time.
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Originally Posted by Igottago
I don't totally disagree with your rent-a-cop comment, but I think dog owners get too much of a free pass on the leash thing. Do only vicious/aggresive dogs have to be leashed in that park? Leash your dogs. I don't care how much you think they are the cutest dogs in the world and you always pick up their poop. If its not an off leash area, leash them. Its in the best interest of everyone that uses the park.
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I find it pretty weird to be on the opposite end of this topic, when owners with unleashed dogs walk up to me on a mountain park path and ask me why I have my dogs leashed.
Since there are NO off-leash areas in mountain parks, I'm not sure why they're wandering around encouraging people to break the law. WTF?
The conversation is usually pretty short and doesn't end with hugs and kisses.
One time I came across a guy carrying a bloodied Jack Russell down a hill. The dog had been wandering loose in the scrub brush surrounding us near the tree line and found a Badger!!! A month or so later I'm in the very same spot and a lady with a loose, busybody Border Collie came up and asked why I had my dogs on a leash. Really? I loved answering that question.
I'm guilty myself as I will let my dogs run free if I'm alone up on a treeless ridge or an area where I have fairly clear visibility in all directions for a long ways with no one else or any other animals around. Definitely not in a forest. Not a perfect system but it usually works.
I'm pretty sure these two below were looking at or listening to a black bear up in the trees as we were walking past. When we came back the same way only half an hour later, bear tracks had merged with ours in this same spot, sending these two into a bit of a frenzy. Fortunately, they couldn't go chase the bear down.
Anyway, if you see me with my dogs on leashes, don't ask me why they're leashed, like that's some kind of crime.
Cowperson