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Walking down Ulriken to Bergen

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:50:11 -0400

Walking down Ulriken to Bergen

Walking from Bergen to the Ulriken gondola and riding it up the...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:36:20 -0400

Walking from Bergen to the Ulriken gondola and riding it up the montain

Leland and Jake cutting up in Red Hook

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:59:08 -0400

Leland and Jake cutting up in Red Hook

Statue of Liberty, Sailboats, and Condom

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:45:32 -0400

Statue of Liberty, Sailboats, and Condom

"The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:23:57 -0400

“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?”

- Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is permanent | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Somebody that I used to know!

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:20:41 -0400

Somebody that I used to know!

Sarah Goodyear is terrible, and so on

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:38:11 -0400

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.

"Geduldig noted, “In the one minute I was allotted for public comment I said that the Pride..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:37:10 -0400

“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.””

- Op-ed: How San Francisco Pride Has Failed Bradley Manning | Advocate.com

The Bergen Railway — yeah it’s pretty good. And of course...

Sat, 11 May 2013 03:40:17 -0400

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.

"I pretty much hate everything about NYC except for Streetsblog and where I had my first Banh Mi in..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:23:13 -0400

“I pretty much hate everything about NYC except for Streetsblog and where I had my first Banh Mi in Brooklyn.”

- How Many NYC Children Were Injured or Killed by Muni-Meters Last Week? | Streetsblog New York City

Dedicated to the cause

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:42:12 -0400

Dedicated to the cause

"normally i hate bikes on NYC streets, but i’m thinking of signing up for this. only to ride..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:56:44 -0400

“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

2012-06-03 Open letter to the Australian people from Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange | WL Central

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:50:43 -0400

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?

Chasing Down a GPS Blip to a Stolen iPhone - NYTimes.com

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:28:27 -0400

Chasing Down a GPS Blip to a Stolen iPhone - NYTimes.com:

They ran back downstairs to the car. The chase was on. Officer Hamid, his car siren blaring, wove through traffic and blew through intersections while the sergeant called out on the radio, looking for a means of stopping the train.

Eventually they did stop the train between stations, searched every car, and recovered the precious iPhone from the 19 year-old who had stolen it because he was short on cash.

Yay?

"There was one young woman complaining about how there’s so little parking, how hard it is to..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:48:08 -0400

“There was one young woman complaining about how there’s so little parking, how hard it is to afford a car if you can’t afford parking… and it’s like listen dumbass. You cannot afford a car in manhattan. This is clear. There’s a bike station in front of your damn apt. This is a sign from god.”

- Streetsblog New York City » Tonight: Tell CB 2 Why Bike-Share Belongs in SoHo and the Village

"Last year, NHTSA Administrator David Strickland credited the historic drop in fatalities — to a..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:37:52 -0400

“Last year, NHTSA Administrator David Strickland credited the historic drop in fatalities — to a still-staggering 32,367 lives lost – to improved driving behavior, vehicle safety, and educational campaigns against drunk driving and for seat belt use. We’ll see how the agency explains the alarming increase in deaths last year.”

- Streetsblog Capitol Hill » NHTSA: Traffic Deaths Shot Up 5.3 Percent to 34,080 in 2012

Photo

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:10:42 -0400

We met my parents in Charleston for the weekend

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:05:01 -0400

We met my parents in Charleston for the weekend

Secret city bus from Charleston airport is just fine, $1.75.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:13:16 -0400

Secret city bus from Charleston airport is just fine, $1.75.

Would be nice to have a less safe, more modern example of...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:38:32 -0400

Would be nice to have a less safe, more modern example of oppression tho.