BIKE: BicycleAustin endorsements

[Fred Meredith]

On May 10, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Patrick Goetz wrote:

> Michael Bluejay wrote:
>> Re: Patrick's long rant about BicycleAustin's City Council 
>> endorsements
>
> I don't have time to fully rebut this, but I will correct a few 
> glaring errors.  For those who don't care to sift through minutia, all 
> you have to do is ask yourself one question:  did the Bicycle Austin 
> endorsements help or hurt the cause of bicycle advocacy as far as 
> relations with city council goes?  Did these endorsements make 
> bicyclists look like a bunch of out-of-touch thimblebrains, or savvy 
> political operatives?
>
> And Fred Meredith's me-too pile-on is hardly worthy of a response. 
> Fred's philosophy of bicycling basically boils down to this:  bicycle 
> helmets GOOD, bike lanes BAD.  If you already agree with this, then 
> there is nothing to talk about.  If you don't agree with this, say for 
> logical, empirical, rational, or statistical reasons, then there's 
> still no point in talking about it,

So, why then are you still flapping your gums?