"An industrial capitalist society that does not recognize ecological limits but only perpetual economic expansion and has the profit motive as driver, will eventually consume and destroy itself."
"But we will all be taken down with it."
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So today when, unlike yesterday, I am biking very cautiously, is the day when I get yelled at.
I'm following this other biker who cuts between a stopped SUV and a parked car. He has to slow to do it, so I slam on the brakes and cut around the left side of the SUV. The driver hops out and says "Hey, hey!" I stop and look at him. "You hit the car!" he says. I say, "No man, it wasn't mean. It was a guy ahead of me, I swear." This sounds like a pretty lame excuse, but happens to be true. Also, wouldn't the driver have noticed that any impact was on the right side of his vehicle and just a second later I am coming around the left side? Damn yuppie. So he's staring at me all hostile like and I just pedal away. He's stuck in traffic, what can he do but call the MPD on his cell phone. And like they'll care.
Also, winner of last night's "Most inappropriate hypothetical casting for Lord of the Rings:" Jim Carrey as Saruman. Oh yeah. Grant Rissler gets the props for that one.