BIKE: Re: The should-be intelligent transportation solutions lobby

[Mike Dahmus]

Patrick Goetz wrote:

> To this end, since you're "continuously immersed in suburban hell" by 
> your own admission, don't you think your time would be better spent 
> explaining to the burbers that there is no highway tooth fairy rather 
> than trying to get them to pour ligher fluid on the house fire rather 
> than gasoline because lighter fluid is slightly less volatile?

Does anybody here who knows me think I've really been shy about doing 
this? I can't believe even Patrick would say this, so I must assume he's 
trying to work around a gap in his reasoning here. (I told this to one 
of my cow orkers yesterday and, as I expected, he laughed his ass off at 
the idea that I've been keeping silent about the problems of suburbia).

There's a difference between trying to fix things in the long run while 
holding your nose and working for the least damaging of the two 
realistic options in the short run, and cutting off your nose to spite 
your face. Nader voters in 2000 (for the most part) understand this now.

- MD