A long time ago, what seems like a hundred years from today, I wrote a post called “1873 Slaughterhouse Cases Explain US #Covid19 ‘Anti-Mask’ Cultism” on why Americans are so slavishly (pun not intended) obsessed with refusing to wear a simple safety mask that benefits society as well as themselves. Today we have multiple examples … Continue reading Why Violent Suicide Biker Gangs Love And Hate Masks
Add to the list of Ulysses Grant’s already amazing legacy (easily being the best American General and one of the best if not the best President in history) his environmentalism mixed with civil rights: deployment of Black mounted federal soldiers to protect nature (and invent mountain biking). The first U.S. rangers included Black Americans, known … Continue reading How Black Americans Invented Mountain Biking
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the increase in bicycle sales after disasters. I won’t go into why people moved away from these logical options for transportation and to the illogical gasoline automobile. Kunstler does a good job of that in The Geography of Nowhere. Instead, I want to point out here that the … Continue reading Bicycles Deemed Best NYC Transit During Pandemic
There’s a new first-person account in the New Yorker of some cultural differences between cycling in Holland and America: Angela van der Kloof, a cycling expert and project leader with the Delft mobility consultancy Mobycon, told me, “From a young age in the Netherlands, we’re trained to take note of others. Not by a teacher … Continue reading Take Your Bike Helmet Off and Hold Cars Accountable