Another prescriptive rant, bitches!

Today is the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.

I know that cyclists can be seen as self righteous about our riding. After all – and give yourselves a pat on the back here, we’re on the right team, eschewing the oil that drives this nation’s wars and all that. But the reality is that we still live within a culture that uses oil. We define ourselves in opposition but we are inextricably part of it as we define ourselves, by accident of birth. It’s the same shame that a Brandeis liberal feels about not being Black.

I say – screw it. Let’s just be nice. If all we did was say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ as we passed a pedestrian, maybe that pedestrian would decide that you don’t have to be a stark, raving mad nut to ride a bike. They’d realize that regular, decent and, yes, nice people ride their bikes to get to work because it’s fun. And as regular, decent and nice people ride their bikes to their regular, decent and nice jobs, we’d realize that, in fact, by riding our bikes, we’ve caused a revolution.

Now for that bong hit I was holding off on till I reached the end of this little hippy bullshit.

Also, if you belong to the NYPL or QPL, they are offering free downloadable movies. In the case of the unfortunantly named NYPL.org, they have streaming movies! I don't know about Brooklyn. Bg ups to the library. I'm off to enjoy 'Sherlock Holmes abd the Secret Weapon' Oh yeah, they also have an awesome image database of the best pictures ever.

Love,
Harry