Mark Wedel

The anti-car brigade is really fucking weird. The way they act like someone who drives regularly kills babies and kicks old ladies down the stairs is really fucking bizarre.

It's not that every individual driver is a murderous asshole (I'm not!). It's that car dependency as a whole is dangerous. It's that cars are deadly when they hit people. It's that our society prioritizes drivers above all else. It's about a system that is dangerous for anyone not in a car.

YouTube video by Concord Records Little Richard: Keep A Knockin'

Now I'm thinking about Little Richard, Chuck Berry, then pop radio of the '60s going into the '70 with Motown and Jackson 5 and Stevie Wonder, and in my teens in the '80s, suddenly a lot of 'PURE ROCK HITS (guitar riff) RADIO' and it's white hair metal everywhere. Anyway... where was I oh yeah THIS

yeah i bet you didn't think about THAT, kids learning mom's fave old songs from the '90s, you CYCLIST

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

Formerly unhoused, Bill Brown now builds trust and hope with Kalamazoo's unhoused – Second Wave For Bill Brown, it’s important to be out there first thing in the morning when the homeless wake up cold and hungry, wondering what they are going to do. He offers hand warmers, gloves, hats, and food...

My latest. After 28 years in prison, he built a new life helping people without housing.

There are reasons for the new segregation.

My first time riding in Chicago last June, I was slapping hoods by day three.

YouTube video by Brett Land Jamelle Bouie calls JD Vance a little pigman (remix)

Time for this now-classic. youtu.be/dNhtlED8n9Q

Part of the reason people who work professionally on homelessness policy coalesced behind "housing first" is because it is the cheapest possible solution (even cheaper for government overall than doing nothing is) and all the agencies that work on this are cash strapped.

YouTube video by Brandon Blackmoor Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) Child catcher

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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

CBS News’ Margaret Brennan Under Fire for ‘Hostile’ Interview With Hakeem Jeffries Was Brennan trying to cater to new CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss?

And there was this Sunday. After a long sudden break in the interview, she returns with this context-less question, out of the blue, an "aren't you just like Trump?" kinda question.

they had him do an MRI which showed such a big brain they wanted him to take the cognitive test, and that showed very strong cognation

E-bikes could cut carbon, congestion, and costs — if cities take them seriously E-bike sales are booming, providing a clean form of transportation that also improves public health. Yet cities remain committed to cars.

"Even in Detroit, a historic center of American car manufacturing and car culture, e-bikes are picking up speed. But respondents to an e-bike user survey Rybarczyk conducted said that Detroit’s bike lanes aren’t well-maintained..."
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cup of wine

“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” is a story by Harlan Ellison about a consciousness that is born from networked computers. All in the title, really.

Banning Right Turns on Red: Lessons From Atlanta How road safety activists passed a law that could make roads much safer.

When turning right, "attention is focused on oncoming traffic from their left — not on people walking across the street or waiting in the bike lane on their right. With their attention elsewhere, drivers are more likely to turn into people outside of cars who have the pedestrian signal to cross.”

Chicago skyline on a hot June day 2026.

What was your week like after the election Nov. 2016?

Creepy translucent mask painted like a psycho, hanging from a tree in gloomy New Orleans City Park, November, just after the 2016 Presidential election.

We were about to embark on a New Orleans vacation morning after the election. So, no sleep, a lot of drinking in an airport bar, more than we usually do at 7 am. Lot of drinking in NOLA, but that was normal. Rode bike into City Park, abandoned spot with graffiti and creepy art. Photo captures mood:

Yup. It's really the perfect metaphor for all his crimes:

Abuse of process
Open corruption
Destruction of the notion of "public"
Bad taste

All during a government shutdown necessitated by tax cut for some of the zillionaires who paid for the ball room.

... I should add that it is good and healthy that you don't know this meme, because that shows you haven't been online for most of your days since the smart phone became a thing.

Bright green folding bike with 20 inch wheels, on a paved trail in the sunshine.

Tern Link D8. Got it for train travel, found myself riding it and not my "normal" bike for fun.

This Is The Future That Liberals Want | Know Your Meme This Is The Future That Liberals Want refers to a series of Twitter jokes mocking a tweet by @polNewsNetwork1 which was intended to decry a picture of a wo

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I wrote a weird scene inspired by the farm where I lived/worked, of a farm cat's view of the farm workers. "Lose the cat, keep the people," he told me. Tough, but fair.

Stanley was a guest instructor in writing at Western Michigan University in the late '80s. He taught me that an editor is not going to treat your words like precious expressions of your unique soul.

You mean the group who once murdered millions and millions in special death factories? THOSE nazis?

I do feel much safer in a world where I can nearly be killed in a crosswalk by an entitled driver using a vehicle as a threatening weapon.