Cute.

lycra panties

I saw some of that. There's no reasoning with those who think they're the smartest people in the room. Also, better looking and more moral.

Well, if you ask them, that is.

My city is also doing stupid shit like taking out a full lane of traffic to dedicate it to a full-time bike lane. In the 8 or so months they've done that I've seen tops 6 riders in those lanes. Now, I travel a bit after rush hour both ways, so maybe I'm missing out on the thousands to flock to those lanes. But I doubt it.

Good one! I mean, with global warming and all, why even consider designing for ice and snow? should have made the roof further from the ground, so that a falling icicle would be able to inflict greater damage.

Apple’s new flagship retail store in Chicago, the one with a MacBook-shaped rooftop, is nothing short of an architectural marvel. At least, that’s how some news reports put it when the store opened back in October. Beyond standing out among the less inspired buildings of the downtown Chicago area, the new Apple Store also happens to be very poorly thought through considering its thin roof now has dangerous icicles hanging perilously over public walkways.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16828080/apple-store-chicago-snow-icicles-of-death

The Last Jedi has some interesting numbers on Rotten Tomatoes. The critics love it, the audience...not so much.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_last_jedi

Witch hunts.

And this points to a profound, twisted irony in the Hamilton hunt: those fuming against him, those extracting repentance from him, those demanding he publicly recant his foul thoughts, present themselves as open-minded and tolerant and yet they explicitly seek to shut down minds and they behave in an alarmingly intolerant fashion.

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-witch-hunting-of-lewis-hamilton/20697#.WkOFGFSFjOQ

I R A, you totally get it.

I realized that they were trying to bully me - as a mob, trying to get me to go away and take my biking-lobby-unfriendly views with me. I then realized, fuck no -- I won't be bullied. I mute the idiots so my time won't be sucked, but, as I write in Unf*ckology, you can choose how you're going to act -- whether you want to act like a fierce badass or act all cowed like they're trying to get you to be. Thanks, I'll go out there as the fierce badass.

Oh, and yes, the "road diet" lane removals prioritize the few at the expense of the many. Think of who can afford to travel on a bike - wealthy young single people with not much to carry. Not plumbers or gardeners with trucks of tools, moms taking kids to lessons, etc., parents driving elderly parents to doctor. So the road is slowed and traffic is jammed because Hipster Jason likes to get to the coffee shop on his $3,000 bike. This causes traffic to speed through neighborhoods, horrible fumes from sitting traffic, and business closures. We used to get food from Sunny Grill on Venice. Gregg now no longer takes Venice Boulevard because of the traffic-jamming "road diet." We only still go to our vet there because we have a long relationship. Now usually takes 20 more minutes to get there -- 20 angry stuck in traffic minutes.

The Trump tax cuts are already paying off:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/tax-bill-china.html

Well, ok.

“Hey geneticist here. You’ve disingenuously and for bigoted purposes oversimplified a complex phenomenon,” she wrote. “A few notes: 1) Sex and gender aren’t the same thing. 2) Chromosomes don’t determine sex.”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10309

I have no problem with adding bike lanes to a street, as long as they keep the number of vehicle lanes the same. Of course, that would require money, effort and some creative, out-of-the-box thinking, as well as a possible tax on the holier-than-thou cyclists.

"My city is also doing stupid shit like taking out a full lane of traffic to dedicate it to a full-time bike lane."

Idiot Atlanta did that downtown - taking full lanes away from deliveries and other traffic serving a few dozen hotels. 60,000 people showed up for DragonCon - and so pedestrians and ambulances used the bike lanes. They have hard curbs to prevent changing lanes into them, so police and EMS have to figure how they're going to get down the street - and the remaining lanes are just a joy to get down with delivery trucks.

In four days / five nights, I saw one (1) bicyclist.

Yay, Atlanta!

This poor boy:

http://reductress.com/post/wow-this-woman-stood-up-to-gender-norms-by-giving-naming-her-son-vagina/

OK, apparently that's satire.

Thank God that's satire, Snoopy. In the meantime, a Jersey Shore snark attack:

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/366767-jersey-shore-cast-member-to-trump-global-warming-is-more

> OK, apparently that's satire.

It's not satire! It's fake news! And you should be very upset about it!

And apparently you were.

Credulity is a theme with you guys.