Also, I'm pretty sure that the people who can't afford a car or car expenses but live in a town or city built around car culture (Hi Arlington!) aren't encouraged to think they are masters of their fates.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Mar 01, 2011 9:35:31 am PST #25832 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Jesse - Mar 01, 2011 9:35:38 am PST #25833 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I thought I wasn't allowed to have a car due to being a Working Girl On My Own? No???
Or a spinster. Either way.
erikaj - Mar 01, 2011 9:35:39 am PST #25834 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
That last turn is kind of a bitch, Fred. C'mon, George Will has not done a classic American roadtrip...with the junk food and fighting and being happy to find a good song on the radio, yeah. Lawrence O'Donnell makes awesome jello shots, too. @@
-t - Mar 01, 2011 9:38:06 am PST #25835 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they--unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted--are masters of their fates.
I admit, when I choose to drive rather than take the train it is often because I want to be more in control of my travel, but that comes with a price - I can't nap or read or sit down to a meal while I'm moving. Delusions of adequacy really don't come into it.
But that's me. I'm sure George Will takes his delusions where he can get them.
Vortex - Mar 01, 2011 9:40:30 am PST #25836 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
My mom was a wonderful mother. When I was a child, I thought she was the Platonic ideal of motherliness.
That's great. While I have a Mountain of Crazy in my mother, she was balanced by the Grand Canyon of Awesomeness that was my dad. You gotta take the bad with the good, is how I like to think about it.
Daisy Jane - Mar 01, 2011 9:43:33 am PST #25837 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I admit, when I choose to drive rather than take the train it is often because I want to be more in control of my travel.
Or because it's snowing, and I'm southern and I AM NOT standing in that shit.
I hate the cold with the passion of a million burning suns-which would be helpful, but no.
Tom Scola - Mar 01, 2011 9:45:19 am PST #25838 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I remember when I did my college co-op, I lived with my Uncle in Maryland and commuted over the Beltway to McLean, VA. That experience did most certainly not fill me with delusions of adequacy.
Polter-Cow - Mar 01, 2011 9:46:11 am PST #25839 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
a town or city built around car culture (Hi Arlington!)
Public transportation? What's that?
beth b - Mar 01, 2011 9:48:14 am PST #25840 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
iI have good parents . not crazy. two of them. They don't even give me that much grief because I don't call . (I am seriously lame that way )
Tom Scola - Mar 01, 2011 9:50:05 am PST #25841 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
BTW, have they finished the Silver Line yet? 'Cause that would have been REALLY useful to me in 1987.