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Infastructure makes cycling normal and safe in bike meccas, but not yet in the Northwest. For example, parked cars to the left of the bike lane not only provide a barrier between motorized traffic and cyclists, they also minimize a cyclist’s chance of getting “doored.
The Kingston Trio
"Charlie On The M.T.A."
Charlie on the MTA by The Kingston Trio
The greatest campaign song.
P.S. If you’ve ever wondered why MTA passes are called CharlieCards and CharlieTickets, this is why.
P.P.S. “Lacking sufficient financial support to pay for radio advertising, O’Brien commissioned campaign songs from local folk artists promoting his themes, recorded them, then played them out of a loudspeaker on a truck driven through town. O’Brien was fined $10 for disturbing the peace as a result.” Spoiler: He still lost.
On foreign policy, the right-wing critiques have been the most unhinged. Romney accuses the president of apologizing for America, and others all but accuse him of treason and appeasement. Instead, Obama reversed Bush’s policy of ignoring Osama bin Laden, immediately setting a course that eventually led to his capture and death. And when the moment for decision came, the president overruled both his secretary of state and vice president in ordering the riskiest—but most ambitious—plan on the table. He even personally ordered the extra helicopters that saved the mission. It was a triumph, not only in killing America’s primary global enemy, but in getting a massive trove of intelligence to undermine al Qaeda even further. If George Bush had taken out bin Laden, wiped out al Qaeda’s leadership, and gathered a treasure trove of real intelligence by a daring raid, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now. But where Bush talked tough and acted counterproductively, Obama has simply, quietly, relentlessly decimated our real enemies, while winning the broader propaganda war. Since he took office, al Qaeda’s popularity in the Muslim world has plummeted.
—Andrew Sullivan, How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics (via evangotlib)
(via maxistentialist)
Their bills have had mixed success and usually die before being brought to a vote, but SOPA and PIPA came frighteningly close to becoming law. The internet-wide protest this week seems to have stalled their progress and probably killed them for now.
But what will happen when the MPAA buys the next SOPA? We can’t protest every similar bill with the same force. Eventually, our audiences will tire of calling their senators for whatever we’re asking them to protest this time.
Eventually, we will lose.
Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review, but we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.
The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us.
Yet when we watch their movies, we support them.
—The next SOPA – Marco.org (via robot-heart-politics)
(via crookedindifference)
Barefoot in Baltimore - Strawberry Alarm Clock
It’s what I do.
Pokemon Yellow in HTML5
This was the first game I remember playing on my gameboy pocket.
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
New York Times op-ed about the value of individual work. UMBC tries to encourage group collaboration in learning science, which is a very good thing. You can always find time to learn on your own, but in a college lecture class, it’s difficult to organize a good study group outside of class.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
