Statue of Liberty, Sailboats, and Condom
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18 May 2013
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17 May 2013
The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and wars: should there come a point when we think about applying that lesson to ourselves?
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8:20
Somebody that I used to know!
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16 May 2013
Sarah Goodyear is terrible, and so on
But Goodyear is beyond clueless, she’s malicious in her attempt to conflate street danger with rule obedience. Cyclists having it both ways on street danger would be to advocate that motorists be prosecuted for killing people while cyclists should not be. In fact, it’s motorists like Goodyear who already do have it both ways in this respect. When motorists kill someone (which is often) the city falls over itself to exonerate them. Perhaps they had their first-ever diabetic fit and couldn’t help careening onto the sidewalk and crashing into a building and killing a woman in between? No criminality! But when a cyclist kills someone (which is exceedingly rare) the cyclist is subject to all available legal scrutiny. What cyclists want is for motorists to be subject to exactly the same scrutiny.
As Leland says, I must be getting over my cold because I’m writing long angry blog comments again.
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13 May 2013
Geduldig noted, “In the one minute I was allotted for public comment I said that the Pride parade used to be more political. It was more about gay politics and gay freedom, and I think we should stay true to that. Bradley Manning represents me more than someone from The L Word does.
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11 May 2013
The Bergen Railway — yeah it’s pretty good.
And of course this cross-country train line through remote parts of Norway is electrified and its trains are modern and quiet. I think it may have blown its horn once.
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7 May 2013
I pretty much hate everything about NYC except for Streetsblog and where I had my first Banh Mi in Brooklyn.
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14:42
Dedicated to the cause
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8:56
normally i hate bikes on NYC streets, but i’m thinking of signing up for this. only to ride from 8th ave to 12th ave when i work on the west side. i hate that walk
—(the old “normal”) Streetsblog.net » Boston to NYC: Bike-Share Will Be Worth It
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8:50
2012-06-03 Open letter to the Australian people from Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange | WL Central
The US Grand Jury has been sitting for 16 months and it is believed to have reached a verdict to indict Julian and has a sealed subpoena ready to unseal at the most beneficial time to the US. The Grand Jury is a flawed, unjust legal process, consisting of four prosecutors but no defense evidence is allowed. There is no judge and the jury pool is drawn from Alexandria, Virginia which has the highest percentage of military contractor families in the US.
It’s amazing how long this has gone on - long enough to view the events in historical context where motivations are easily teased out. The US government comes out looking just unhinged, devoting the resources of a superpower to capture a nonviolent foreign dissident in a snare of dubious case law that it concocts years after the offense.
Who is our Ahab, or is this vengeful course continued through bureaucratic inertia alone?
