The urban eco-commute of the future

Equal parts bicycle and moped,

Equal parts thrifty and stylish,

Equal parts eco-conscious and fashion-conscious...

...just like everything else in the Green Movement.

Ok, ok. I'm not gonna pretend I don't really want one.

$3,500 @ Derringer Cycles

Amtrack Back on the Rails

"I think I can, I think I can...finally turn a profit..."

Last year, I forecast that the increasing price of fuel would railroad America back to its 19th Century embrace of the train.

In yet another sign of the times, Amtrack has received its first commitment of Federal funds since 2002. Meanwhile, ridership has been up 10% since last year.

So get back on track with the cool kids and ride the rail, Joe Biden does.


"I LOVE AMTRACK!"

New World Order Part Deux at Hand?

"Hey Georgie, forget about that whole Iraq War thing--let's be friends."

Will George Bush and the next American president (yes, by that I mean The Obaminator) go along with a "Bretton Woods II" that would do for the world financial order what the original Bretton Woods did for global monetary and trade policy?

Will this take an individualist, free-market American flavor like the first, or swing closer to the European Dream of a multipolar world based on communalism, sustainability, and human rights?

You Can't Read this Year's Nobel Prize Winner

His name is Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. He's almost entirely unknown and unavailable in the Anglosphere. Good luck finding any of his books on Amazon.

Except this one.

Is Mr. Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Nobel Committee, right in charging Americans with "insularity" and "ignorance" about world literature? Or has the Nobel Committee just continued to bend over backwards to exclude American writers (there have only been three in the last 52 years, with the last being Toni Morrison in 1993).


"Ain't never heared of no John-Mary Lay-Cleeezo, stranger..."

The Men's Lib Movement

Men of the future will be able to compliment each other on their sparkling eyes, well-manicured fingers, and supple new-gym-membership-fed muscles without shame!

"Your testicles are terrific"

Grand Paean to the Blog...

Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic (which has a spiffy new makeover) tells us...

Why I Blog

"...the key to understanding a blog is to realize that it’s a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies. If it stops paddling, it sinks."

Point taken, reader.

Links of the Day: October 20

Why the American appeal of the road hog displays contradictory individualism and conformity--speaking of which, despite political orientation or societal relation to the white colonial power structure, we're all postmodernists now, so keep on reading the written medium de jure of the deconstructed world we hath wrought: the blog .