Well, as a white male, I’d like to personally thank you for making the world more palatable for me. I mean I didnt’t ASK for it or anything, but it’s nice to be accommodated.

When the stakes are high, the concept of overreaction barely exists at all.

How was it clear? For all we know the city bike’s hollow frame was packed with BB’s and a fuse.

You don’t make exceptions based on a few seconds of observation that he seems like a normal dude. That’s not how this works. Once you start doing that, you can easily miss disguised threats. Had the motorcade been five minutes out, ok. I might be able to get on board with this. With it being literally just a few…

Otoh... there are jobs that must be taken that seriously regardless of the innocent-seeming context. My father had a story he told me recently about when he was an officer in the Air Force inspecting nuclear missile silos. The short of it is that he got tackled and held at gun point once when his badge fell off in the…

I’d agree if this was anywhere but NYC. Everyone there thinks that they’re that “one last person” who can just get by before the rules or restrictions are enforced; “Oh you’re closing now? I just want to pick up one thing.” “I know the subway car is packed but let me just squeeze in before letting the doors closed”…

They didn’t know who he is or what he was doing. Some terrorist could have done the same thing on a bike. If they helped him up and he turned out to be carrying a weapon, things could have been very different.

No, it wouldn’t have. And the POTUS was seconds away. You don’t take even the smallest of chances with POTUS’ security.

As a cyclist I say fuck that guy, the cops totally did their job.

What if he is a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body? The cops had 10 seconds before the man reached the president vehicle.

Once you get to the ballpark, you get to have one of the great baseball backdrops in the country. To hell with Camden Yards and the Warehouse. PNC Park and the Clemente Bridge? Go fuck yourselves. Dodger Stadium and the hills behind it? Eat a bag of dicks. SunTrust Park has... an Omni Hotel and a Comcast office…

Welcome to the South. Fuck your socialist social programs.

The new stadium is always sold as a public good: neighborhood revitalization, higher property values, more tourism dollars, civic pride, etc. It rarely works out that way.

The system works!

It’s not just Atlanta. New stadiums are always boondoggles, corporate welfare for billionaires.

Could be worse, you could not be a sports fan but still be forced to pay for a stadium you’ll never use.

It’s pretty stupid to confront someone in a car who’s obviously a little off when one is on a motorcycle.....

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But Florida... so stand your ground?

Today it is all so fractured over the internet. Then there was radio with trusted old school DJ’s who mined for that musical gold. Now you have to put lots of time in it to hunt and dive for those pearls in blogs. I miss that old MTV.