Bicyclism

It's election time! (again). This time, of all times, the pickings are abysmally thin. The choice is to vote for the least worst bickering, simpering, pouting candidate free floating without even the pretence of something on which to stand. I am sick of politics that gets this abysmally bad. It's embarrassing to chose between the duds on display. The system's gone bad. Inanity now prevails. But, perhaps there is a way out. All it takes is one politician to work the wonders of Chaos Theory and unleash a whirlwind of change. I have a suggestion, and it involves cycling, of course. Read this latest post to Bicyclism Blog: The Broomwagon of Politics

Clearly, and let me be clear... bicycles are lethal, deadly mechanisms of suicide. They should be banned for public health and safety reasons. Other forms of organised suicide are banned by the nanny state. So why not bicycles? Just looking at a bicycle can kill... That lethal allure of speed freaking carbon is enough to kill. All that precision mechanical perfection is a siren call to doom. Clearly, bicycles are deadly. Or so the social meme goes. Pardon a bit of a lateral thought here. Could it be, possibly, do you think, that it's not bicycles that kill but, maybe, those moronic cretins who drive cars who are always running us over - who are the real problem around here? As for me, I ride just to spite all those triple-chinned risk assessors out there who seek to privilege their own personal car-sloth via demonising any and all challenges to that greatest of modern myths: the inviolability of the automobile and its (cancerous) centricity in contemporary society. Read my extended rant in this latest post to Bicyclism Blog: Deadly Treadlies