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I don't get the outrage or rogueness. who cares what the legislature intended, the law is the law, let the courts decide how to apply it. - bjamin

Value Line - access with library card. - bjamin

on new industrialists and global economic order. - bjamin

good discussion of correlation between so-called progressive cities, based on transportation type metrics, and rust-belt cities, with racial diversity. - bjamin

This piece is a good analysis, but Fox is so ridiculous, that by and large, it already is ignored, at least in regards to news reporting, by any serious person. In regards to making money, it is serious biznass. - bjamin

I could see this being a downer to this style of cycle track. I've rode the SW Oak and Stark cycle tracks with the more traditional parked cars being to the right of the bike lane, and had good experiences, thought has been at low-traffic times. - bjamin

I could see this being a downer to this style of cycle track. I've rode the SW Oak and Stark cycle tracks with the more traditional parked cars being to the right of the bike lane, and had good experiences, thought has been at low-traffic times. - bjamin

too personal to comment. I don't understand the DA. - bjamin

I'm a bit tired, but this seems like a great thing to share. - bjamin

Touch This: the unspoken contract between artist and viewer - bjamin

how many bloggers does it take to replace Andrew Sullivan? - bjamin

make a bike rack - bjamin

this is a list of research papers used for Predictably Irrational, with links to pdfs - bjamin

well Jonathan, I think the marketers are successful, getting the 'bike media guy' to cover this extensively on bikeportland and give TV interviews. It also fits with the general ethos of bikeportland: get traffic by pointing out how the divide between bikes and cars is a false one. I'm beginning to think there is a divide, but it's around acting responsibly or not. I'll go think about this more and blog later. . . - bjamin

analysis of sarah palin, it seems to now be the conventional wisdom. - bjamin

Thank you to the Portland Mercury for this astute criticism of our sorry-ass daily paper, The Oregonian. The Mercury has never struck me as being a source for actual coverage of any event occuring in the real world, but this blog is a completely different story! Full of speedy coverage (sometimes WillyWeek wins, but if I were betting, money is on blogtown) which time and time again points out the bias from various sources of authority. I figure it's written by the same writers as the paper version, but for some reason blogtown is easier to digest. - bjamin

this type of coverage is awesome. - bjamin

points out how previous eras of streetcar lines in urban areas developed retail space on bottom and residential spaces up above. this is the 'new' model again. - bjamin

yes, and this is why enabling a system to allowed employees to purchase healthcare insurance as individuals would be a good thing, but wouldn't the government just be more responsible for the poor health people? private companies would charge too much for the smokers, the fat people and the genetically ill-forsaken, and society as a whole, via taxes (income, no doubt) would be required to pay their ER bills and diabetic requirements. Sure, it may be cheaper on whole to just pay their bills in advance, to try and get it cheaper on the long run, but why should we all have to pay for this? Can't we charge the people with less healthy lifes styles more for healthcare? only if we do it via consumption based taxes? ok, deal accepted, sell us sinlge-payer healthcare and tax accordingly, just not income, value added taxes to those commodities which add to healthcare costs. - bjamin

sometimes I feel like this. I don't wear a tie, can't afford shots at bars, and there aren't pigeons around here. but still, sometimes I feel like this. - bjamin

i'd say it's about time we abandon the very idea of masculinity itself. while we're at it, let's get rid of femininity as well. - bjamin

bring it! this is why I voted for Rep. Earl Blumenauer. - bjamin

Greenwald again demonstrates how long-form investigative journalism now takes place on the internet, in what some would call the blogosphere. I call it journalism. - bjamin

I'm starting to think drunk drivers are the biggest bane to our existence in America. causing untold amounts of violence and death each year, while we all cover the costs of their drunken rampages via uninsured motorist coverage, health care costs, and generally the cost of dealing with the pain inflicted upon innocent persons in society. I don't get why politicians don't share this view. perhaps we collectively accept the toll of drunk drivers, like we used to accept cars without seat-belts. - bjamin

I don't quite see the need for such a provision into the law; it's perfectly legal to say no to a business transaction. it seems to be more a function of our relatively-free market system, and less so for protecting the rights of certain individuals to buy catered dinners from homophobes. - bjamin

yeah Oregon! let's do this, ban 'em from bikes too! and ban hands-free, it doesn't make it safer at all. - bjamin

this is a nice note, I agree, but my "hangover" effect is much less than this. i can't read fast enough to really make it worthwhile when high, but pondering a full day of reading or lectures or art? I find it draws me in and fuels more thought. and just look around Portland, who tags more than TMR ? no one. - bjamin

this is utter BS, if we are going to pay for the cops to sit out and there and perform a sting operation, they ought to at least give out more than 22 citations, this probably doesn't cover the health care tab for the police force for one day. back when I got nabbed in a sting, there were like 50 bike citations and one for a car. that's a ratio that'll bring in enough money to cover the cities legal obligations for future police-brutality suits. - bjamin

yeah i think I see what @davewiner is talking about; techcrunch writes articles like this, which basically say twitter is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and in return, twitter suggests them as a user to follow and they get half a million followers in two weeks. anyways, this article sucks (who cares about some band and 3000 downloads, woop-D-Doo, thanks for pointing out your genius, techcrunch, I'll really follow your insights for marketing insight in the future. - bjamin

ya so get well wellied tonight - bjamin

good analysis. - bjamin