I've done all three. Mostly I'm a walker (and well, a subway commuter). I did bike to work for a while before drivers scared me off the road. I want to live. And obeying the rules of the road did not buy me respect.

Every cohort has its selfish behaviors. I've noticed (even as a runner) that pedestrians on trails will walk three abreast and even when a biker calls out "on your left" or rings their bell, the walkers will trudge on, and not yield right of way. As a driver I've had pedestrians -- usually clueless tourists who seem to think a a protective bubble surrounds them while on vacation -- step out in front of me against crosswalks.

And yes, I've seen plenty of inconsiderate bikers. I was almost mowed down the other day by one blowing a stop sign (not even slowing down, he passed a car stopped at the stop sign and nearly hit me). As commuting by bike has picked up, I've noticed more of these folks, people who are clueless of the rules of the road, riding on a sidewalk on a side street, going the wrong way, you name it.

But you know what? it's the drivers who really are the worst. They'll pull out of garages, scanning the horizon for oncoming cars and ignore the cyclist in front of them. They'll roll through stops and almost hit pedestrians. They'll make a right on red without looking for the pedestrian or the cyclist.

And hands-down, they win the death prize.

Check out this guy, Tom Price, in action. Won't even let a woman get a word in edgewise if she's talking about women's health.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_11/020859.php

has run as a moderate...or at least, he has totally avoided running ads on any hot-button conservative issues. In fact, when Deeds brought attack ads on his anti-working woman master's thesis, he ran effective counter ads featuring his daughter soldiering in Iraq and working mothers who were employed by him.

Deeds has run as the "not the other guy" candidate. Look how that turned out for John Kerry in the presidential 2004 race.

I picked up a Lilith Fair double cassette for $5 in a sales rack somewhere and it's one of the cassettes that has lasted through scorching sun and brutal winter in my beat-up old car. (I'm not going to replace the cassette player because any up to date system would just get stolen and I don't drive that much)

Yes, a lot of it was dentist office music, but there was the Indigo Girls and the Cardigans. And Lhasa de Sela, my personal fave from the cassettes (singing Payande). And there's also Yungchen Lhamo, the Tibetan singer-songwriter, who has performed with the Smashing Pumpkins, iirc.

is not an accurate description. I prefer the term pro-birth myself. They don't give a s--- about anyone once they're born.

if that's what she got out of the Omnivore's Dilemma. If you're a vegetarian or vegan who eats factory farm raised vegetables. Rabbits, shrews, moles, birds all get killed in cruel ways by factory farming of veggies too.

After reading Pollan, I only buy both vegetables and meat and cheese from farmers' markets. Of course, I can afford to despite the recession and I'm not going to criticize those who can't.

If Ms Portman really wanted to do some good, she'd lobby against the vile agricultural subsidies given to factory farming.

It looks like a schmaltzy love story, not about Amelia Earhart's rocking adventures.

And was Amelia's husband that much older than her? IIRC, he was maybe 10 years older at most. So here you have Richard Gere, at least 30 years older than Hilary Swank. Another turnoff, as far as I'm concerned. I'm sick of Hollywood pairing old males with young women.

But what about Ireland? Or Portugal? These places also have highly restrictive abortion laws, and, unlike the Phillipines or South America, a functioning state. What's the rate of clandestine abortion there? Or would presenting that evidence not help support their thesis?

Women in Ireland hop on a ferry to jolly old England to take care of their abortion needs. There's a lot of debate about the illegality of abortion because of that. IIRC, it might be even illegal to do so, at least for minors, but it stops few people.

Wonder how they're going to deal with the Marxist language there?

This is pretty communist:

Acts 2:44-45:

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

5And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

Or this verse:

Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,And laid [them] down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

Or the story of Ananias and Sapphira, who dropped dead after withholding some of the proceeds from the sale of their land for the good of the early Christian church.

hmmm.

It's the only explanation of how Bill Ayers could write a 1995 book for Obama years before his own memoir!

And how there could be newspaper announcements from a hospital announcing Obama's birth!

It's very clear Grayson was using language that the Republicans have been using for years against abortion. In fact, I think that whole setup was straight from some Republican anti-abortion legislator's speech. Hilarious.

Oh, and sanjwat, MEDICAID goes only to people who fall below a certain threshold of poverty. You have an income above that and your employer doesn't provide health insurance, you're screwed. And by the time they qualify for Medicaid, they're too sick for it to make a difference.