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  Tara, tara, the war on tara

  Too dim to understand Bastiat's broken window fallacy (and many other things). What do the French know anyway?

  Just goes to show that some really messed up clocks are not right even once a day.

  I feel like that guy from Hogan's Heroes who was always asking: What is this man doing here?!!

  Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

  On Notable quotable posted 1 year, 8 months ago 7 Responses

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  Picking up the check

  Good suggestions Pat.
  If I might add, the government could either provide or subsidize the private provision of secure parking areas, bike lanes,  etc. through revenue raised by congestion pricing. Why not make the motorists pay for their externalities rather than punishing those who suffer from them?

  Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

  On A breathless appraisal of Lance's new bicycle mecca and mission posted 1 year, 8 months ago 30 Responses

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  Other things suck, too

  What special infrastructure - paint for bike lanes?poles or meter posts for locking your ride?

  This country is already up to its eyeballs in "special infrastructure" for the internal destruction engine and adding more every hour - how's that working out for everyone?

  This may be my own isolated experience, but it seems that almost everything that is done in the Baltimore metro area to make things more car friendly makes it much less friendly, if not outright hostile, for the muscle powered folks: pedestrians, cyclists, kids on scooters, skaters, etc.

  Yeah, I'll register my bike...when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers (sorry Charlton).

  Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

  On A breathless appraisal of Lance's new bicycle mecca and mission posted 1 year, 8 months ago 30 Responses

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  Delay could be costly...

  2005 Nobel prizewinner and game-theory guru Thomas Schelling on acting now and the need for public sector intervention/leadership:
  http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/schelling1

  "The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny."

  On Delay makes environmental catastrophe more likely posted 1 year, 8 months ago 25 Responses

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  You mean we can't have it all, right now?

  Odo-I'll join you in the unpopular corner. The fashion of living beyond one's means through the miracle of other peoples' money is a huge part of the problem. Can we afford it? was replaced with We can make that payment each month (forget the term of the loan)! and viola, a negative savings rate, McMansions with only two rooms furnished, urban parents who need ladders to get the kids into the SUVs, etc. Easy credit (post-Volcker)helped to pump up this "what me worry?" attitude towards debt accumulation. Ironic that one of the few policy solutions available to address the credit crunch is to move towards lower rates again.

  "The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny."

  On Deep thought of the day posted 1 year, 9 months ago 14 Responses