…is my new favorite band! Check out their song, “cops ain’t shit but hoes and tricks.”

A New French Revolution’s Creed: Let Them Ride Bikes
Finally, Parisians have gotten so sick of choking on exhaust fumes that they’ve decided to install 20,600 public bicycles at easy-to-use rental stations around the city. (Well, we can’t explain this progressive event only by environmentalist and socialist motivations. It helped that an advertizing company is funding the bikes and their maintenance in exchange for rights to use 1,628 billboards around the city.)

I’m glad to hear that Paris will be more biker-friendly, as I was pretty disgusted by the traffic when I was walking around there last month. It was especially a rough contrast for me because I live in a very bikecentric city: Minneapolis, which has the second highest percentage of biking commuters of any U.S. city (link).

According to this article on “Bogota’s Urban happiness movement,” “Recent studies on life satisfaction show that commuting makes people more unhappy than anything else in life. (It is, apparently, the opposite of sex.) Commuting also happens to rob us of time for family and friends.” Riding your bike is a much more enjoyable way to commute than being stuck in a metal cage in traffic.

Leftists in every city should try to organize against car-based transportation and in favor of bicycles - building more bike paths and providing free bikes for the public. A good way to get connected with other bikers is critical mass - check out critical-mass.info.