This is a nonsensical argument. Do you wear a helmet to walk to the store? Pedestrians get hit by cars at a similar rate as cyclists. Do you wear a helmet in the shower? Lots of head injuries occur in the bathroom. You never know when you're going to slip — it's better than being naked!

"does anyone ever actually take that position, or is it just the favorite straw man of people who want to find a reason to justify not taking safety precautions?"

So, the fact that cycling is safer in places where no one wears helmets doesn't cause you to sit back and think "hmmm, maybe this is something I need to think a bit more about before telling other people it's simple"?

Yeah, that's my point. Wearing a helmet should not be the first point of discussion in bike safety. It puts people off and it doesn't actually do much to help.

Don't cave to the the helmet fear cabal. You'll live a longer, healthier life riding your bike without a helmet than you will driving your car around day after day.

Wearing a helmet is *maybe* the 10th or 15th thing people should think about when talking cycling safety. But here (and everywhere else) it always seems to come up first. Helmets do not prevent accidents, and they don't protect you as much as you think.

Clay Travis: Still an asshole.

NYT/Deadspin/Sane people: "It's really disturbing how Tallahassee PD and FSU seem to have a pattern of covering up for athletes"

Weed kills.

McGee was putting deals together for Michael Phelps before he'd won his first Olympic medal, and that worked out swimmingly for all concerned.

I would but Scocca scares me.

Can someone tell Craggs to write more?