July 2012
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American Aquarium Drinker: Alright. →
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daveholmes:
I’m reading the NYTimes’ coverage of the Aurora shootings, and this quote jumped out at me:
Luke O’Dell of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a Colorado group on the other side of the debate over gun control, took a nearly opposite view. “Potentially, if there had been a law-abiding citizen who had been able to carry in the theater, it’s possible the death toll...
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Can we go car-light?
While I wholeheartedly support people living a car-free existence if they want to, I know that for many of us (most of us?) that’s just not going to be a reality. So in my conversations with folks I don’t ask them to live car-free, but I do suggest, however, that they try “car-light.”
Go ahead and keep your car for long trips, hauling big loads, making out in the...
“Nothing is so utterly alive and well as the spirit of the traveler on a bicycle.”
– James E. Stars
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So I'll take that as a compliment
My daughter just told me that I’m “like a Jesus jumper but for bikes.” When I told her that was a compliment she disagreed, but how can proselytizing a sustainable, fun, and healthy mode of transportation in a car-clogged world be a bad thing?
“All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.”
– Michael Franti and Spearhead
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“When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun,...”
– Diane Ackerman
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“Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds.”
– Louis J. Helle, Jr. 