I dunno.. Exercize? Save gas? Look good in tight shorts? Really doesn’t matter. And since pedestrians are even smaller, harder to see, and rarely wear lights, they are even more at risk when stepping out into the realm of the car.

I’ve been a commuting cyclist in Chicago for over a decade. I’ve been hit a few times and had 2-3x as many close calls. I pass ghost bikes (white-painted memorials for cyclists murdered on the city’s streets) daily and it never gets any less haunting. What makes me ache even more about every preventable death…

I hear this argument all the time, and there is absolutely no data to back it up. “Idaho stops” have been shown to be not only safer, but more efficient. I’m not going to deny that there are some stupid fucking cyclists out there (the neon-lit pedicab that ran a red light last night to get on the Edens Expressway for…

[Citation Needed]

How about you stop driving a car. 

Motorcyclist here. Ban cars. 

Bikes don’t kill people. Cars do. 

It’s extremely rare that a cyclist puts anyone in danger by not being “experienced in driving in traffic.” It’s even more rare that a cyclist would put anyone besides themselves in danger by doing so. On the other hand, car drivers are piloting around several tons of metal at very high speeds, so when they fuck up…

yes, there’s very fine people on both sides

NCC...is a troll. I have gotten hip to their schticks here on Splinter....Baracka is one too but I think they changed their handle recently...

:::Insert anecdote about how Tip O’Neil and Reagan worked together to fuck over the working class as example of bipartisan halcyon days of yore:::

Maybe Chris Matthews would be a better person today if he had only moved to the west coast to live with his Uncle and Aunt in Bel Air.

Now do "Hillary's no different than Trump!"

Harris further clarified on CBS This Morning that the kind of private insurance she would be in favor of keeping around would be “supplemental” to a government program.

Voted Bernie, then Clinton last election. They could post up a particularly eloquent chinchilla this time and I’d still vote Democrat. 

No...its about every kid at the southern border that Trump put in a cage, every woman in this country that now has to worry that Roe v Wade will get overturned, every parent who has to worry their kid is going to have to fight another war in the middle east etc etc etc.

THIS. TOO.!

Exactly. There is nothing hyperbolic about your message. I am sick to my stomach.

Yeah, but she didn’t promise them a unicorn in their garage and a money tree in their yard. So keeping the SCOTUS out of the Federalist Society just wasn’t enough of a consolation.

When are you going to stop carrying the water for people who can’t even exercise a minimum of responsibility to understand the bigger picture of elections and not base their voting actions on 10 second sound clips?