DC's Capital Bikeshare program, for which you pay a fee to join and then ride bikes to and from docking stations across the city, is a popular thing that keeps enlisting new members and expanding. Its success is leading other cities, such as New York, to start their own programs. Now, as an earth-destroying motorist, your Wonkette author basically hates bikers and runs them over at every opportunity. But it's hard to deny the success of a successful program that most people like, right? And now we can
"Anal retentive certainly beats the opposite."
~ Woody Allen
I corrected you because I thought some other Wonketters would want to read that book. That you for taking my correction in the spirit in which it was offered.
Oh, please dear, call me OWL (cuz nobody <i>else</i> does).
And yes, OWL&#039;s &quot;Reputation Rating&quot; has taken a couple hits since last we spoke. It was down to 81 earlier today. But OWL shall not be deterred from OWL&#039;s otherwise obtuse course. OWL thanks you kindly for your inquiry and the sentiment that OWL senses behind it.
Worry not fair laydee-person, OWL shall persevere. (Though this talking in third person stuff is a troubling development ... )
To be pendantic, I believe it&#039;s Bernard Fall. He was killed over there - and if he&#039;d lived, and if people had bothered to read and learn from his books, we might have avoided that debacle.
For anyone interested in Viet Nam, or in what we could have learned from that and then avoided in Iraq, I highly recommend Prof. Arthur Schlesinger&#039;s &quot;The Bitter Heritage.&quot;
Every argument used to justify invading Iraq is demolished in that outstanding little book.
Memo to Rebecca: Wonkette could use a books section!
Back in &#039;Nam the VC dragged their artillery up the side of a fuckin mountain on bicycles and then shelled the shit out of the French at Dien Bien Phu.
The guy has a point. And his point is equally valid for another wheel-based communist plot. That&#039;s right, I&#039;m talking about roads. Where for a small fee (registration fees, transportation funds, etc), you can drive a car on communal roads. One of the ways this is paid for is a tax on the gasoline pumped into a hole in the side of the road enthusiasts car. These &quot;gas holes&quot; don&#039;t pay for the secondary costs of automobiles: air pollution, military operations to protect supply, subsidies to oil companies, police. Piss Karl Marx off: get rid of your car!
What I think he doesn&#039;t get is that it&#039;s not sharing. Not any more than my renting a car is &quot;sharing&quot;. Did I read that right...people have to pay a fee? Not sharing.
&quot;Anal retentive certainly beats the opposite.&quot;
~ Woody Allen
I corrected you because I thought some other Wonketters would want to read that book. That you for taking my correction in the spirit in which it was offered.
Oh, please dear, call me OWL (cuz nobody <i>else</i> does).
And yes, OWL&#039;s &quot;Reputation Rating&quot; has taken a couple hits since last we spoke. It was down to 81 earlier today. But OWL shall not be deterred from OWL&#039;s otherwise obtuse course. OWL thanks you kindly for your inquiry and the sentiment that OWL senses behind it.
Worry not fair laydee-person, OWL shall persevere. (Though this talking in third person stuff is a troubling development ... )
Cheers!
To be pendantic, I believe it&#039;s Bernard Fall. He was killed over there - and if he&#039;d lived, and if people had bothered to read and learn from his books, we might have avoided that debacle.
For anyone interested in Viet Nam, or in what we could have learned from that and then avoided in Iraq, I highly recommend Prof. Arthur Schlesinger&#039;s &quot;The Bitter Heritage.&quot;
Every argument used to justify invading Iraq is demolished in that outstanding little book.
Memo to Rebecca: Wonkette could use a books section!
MI: Thanks for correcting my error!
nv911:
Thank you for posting that and saving me from putting out in public something I would regretted!
Even when a tornado wasn&#039;t coming.
Back in &#039;Nam the VC dragged their artillery up the side of a fuckin mountain on bicycles and then shelled the shit out of the French at Dien Bien Phu.
Never liked bicycles after that.
I guess it&#039;s the requirement of physical exercise that makes it extra sochalistic.<br /><br />---
The guy has a point. And his point is equally valid for another wheel-based communist plot. That&#039;s right, I&#039;m talking about roads. Where for a small fee (registration fees, transportation funds, etc), you can drive a car on communal roads. One of the ways this is paid for is a tax on the gasoline pumped into a hole in the side of the road enthusiasts car. These &quot;gas holes&quot; don&#039;t pay for the secondary costs of automobiles: air pollution, military operations to protect supply, subsidies to oil companies, police. Piss Karl Marx off: get rid of your car!
I knew he hated cats, but hadn&#039;t heard his opinion of bikes before.
bout damned time the sexy lady was brought to the official wonkette portrait.
we aren&#039;t all patchouli and unshaven pits.
And harnessed him to the swing set in the front yard.
For sale: Girl&#039;s bicycle seats. New: $7. Used: $10
It will weld us together, however.
What I think he doesn&#039;t get is that it&#039;s not sharing. Not any more than my renting a car is &quot;sharing&quot;. Did I read that right...people have to pay a fee? Not sharing.
Every day brings a new headshaker.
Hurts? Hell, if you aren&#039;t careful it&#039;ll burn holes through your screen and then start in on the masonry.