Archive for November, 2009
New Philly Weekly (and additional observations)
Drop by the Philly Weekly for my new piece on the proposed bike laws. Read it, and then come back here for a few additional comments. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.
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OK, that’s enough time. The Weekly had to edit my original piece down for space, and there are a couple of points that [...]
Things That Piss Me Off (Updated)
It is touching to watch progressives lament that “their” president has the wrong advisors. “We trust the czar, we simply dislike his ministers.” Obama owed his meteoric rise from obscurity to the presidency not to any bold progressive ideas — he didn’t have any — but rather to a combination of his appealing life story [...]
Read More..>>Happy Thanksgiving
I’m in Madison Wisconsin for the rest of the week. Happy Thanksgiving!
Read More..>>Bill Hangley Writes a Letter to Stu Bykofsky
Hi Stu:
RE: your bicycle column of 11/23:
Obviously, the more bikes on the streets, the more important it is for bikers to respect the rules and not ride recklessly. At the same time, the bike has to be recognized for the flexible, human-scale thing that it is – it’s not a car, and the world will [...]
Stu Bykofsky’s Temper Tantrum
Oh dear. Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky is having a temper tantrum about bicycles. Let’s take a look and see if we can count the inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and mistakes in his latest “when-I-was-a-boy-we-ate-wool-and-we-liked-it” freakout.
JUMP ON MY handlebars. Let’s go for a ride.
Almost guaranteed to be a fiction: in all probability, Stu didn’t ride a [...]
Philadelphia’s Proposed Bike Laws are the Product of Morons.
Dan U-A breaks down Philly’s proposed new bike laws. They are idiotic, developed by two morons, Jim Kenney, who obviously haven’t been on a bicycle since they were children:
As we all know by now, Councilmen Kenney and DiCicco have decided that the city needs new laws to regulate bicycles. These proposed regulations include:
1) That [...]
Why Does the Inky Keep Publishing John Yoo the Torturer?
John Yoo Doesn’t Want the 9/11 suspects tried in New York:
Ownership of the disastrous decision to try al-Qaeda leaders in New York City federal court is the one clear thing to emerge so far from the Obama administration.
The call was not made “on the whims or the desires of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” the mastermind of [...]
Good For You, Pal, But not Enough
Confessed killer apologizes to Cassidy’s widow:
Testimony ended in dramatic fashion today in the murder trial of John “Jordan” Lewis when the confessed killer apologized to the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy.
Judy Cassidy was testifying about her husband’s last hours before he was shot on Oct. 31, 2007, while Lewis — who pleaded guilty [...]
Dalek with a Banjo
I also want to do a Cyberman playing a mandolin or an upright bass.
Read More..>>Bob Brady: Biotech Puppet
Bob Brady will say whatever the biotech industry tells him to.
In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, [...]
