Things That Piss Me Off
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 with the big money that allowed him to abandon campaign finance limits. According to one Obama supporter I know, the Obama campaign pressured its Wall Street donors to make their contributions in the form of many small checks, in order to create the illusion that the campaign was more dependent on small contributors t

Happy Thanksgiving
I’m in Madison Wisconsin for the rest of the week. Happy Thanksgiving!

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 survive if bikers hop up on the sidewalk from time to time, as long as they don’t forget that everyone’s safety counts. If everybody takes a nice deep breath it’s not hard to see how we can all share the roads.

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. JU

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,