Reply #34: No pain, no gain

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I recently moved within two miles of work, sold my truck, bought a bike, and started using these middle-aged legs again. I'm losing weight, getting in shape, saving money, and laughing everytime I ride past a gas station. And I don't just save money on car payments, insurance, gas, and maintainance--I save several hundred dollars a month on all the incidental purchases a car allows you to make, like fast food, ice cream, and the like.

BUT, some drivers would rather run a bike off the road than slow down a bit and go around. This kind of selfishness and recklessness is a nice metaphor for our foreign policy under Bush--keep running roughshod over anyone in our way and damn the environment.

The church is slowly coming around to the view that reckless consumption is profoundly sinful. The sooner our leaders come around to that view, the better.

Satire as thick as a president's skull