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Imagine Los Angeles without cars. A town where people ride their bikes and walk in the streets and the smells of tacos and veggie burgers drift through the air instead of exhaust.

Sound like a pipe dream? Not if a group called cicLAvia is successful. A volunteer coalition of bicycle advocates, transportation experts, artists and academics, cicLAvia wants to make Sundays in Los Angeles virtually car-free -- transforming the city's streets into giant bike lanes and creating a public space that connects every neighborhood in the city.

more reflections on life from renrutia.

a good interview with r crumb.

From the page: "At the start of Tuesday's special hearing, Mr Karadzic said: "I do not want to boycott these proceedings, but I cannot take part in something that has been bad from the start and where my fundamental rights have been violated."

Judge Kwon replied that the court had already determined the defendant had had ample time to prepare.

"Clearly you disagree with these decisions," the judge added. "However, as I previously stated to you, it is the trial chamber, not an accused person, which determines readiness for trial." "

From the page: "A physician accused of deliberately injuring two cyclists by slamming on his car's brakes on a narrow Brentwood road was convicted Monday of mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon and other serious criminal charges.

Dr. Christopher Thompson, 60, slumped forward and held his face in his hands after the verdicts were announced in a courtroom packed mostly with supporters and cyclists.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Stone, who prosecuted the case, asked for Thompson to be jailed immediately, calling him a flight risk and a safety threat to cyclists."

From the page: ""Jesus is not the founder of the Christian religion... [but that religion, which did develop centuries later] "was antithetical to what Jesus was about." And he thinks that Christian religion is itself a myth.

Instead, "What Jesus was about was starting a revolution. He called this revolution 'the Kingdom of God'" (9). What is this kingdom?

It is centered on only one thing: "manifesting the beauty of God's character and thus revolting against everything that is inconsistent with this beauty" (9-10). So Boyd calls this a beautiful revolution.
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At this moment (October 2009), many
Americans are seized by object fascination
with the unpredictable movements of small
white spheres; specifically. This is the
combat known as the World Series of
baseball, which this year pitches the New
York Yankees against the defending world
champions, the Philadelphia Phillies. As
part of our research in this field of dreams, we here report the discovery of another
bipedal vertebrate, similar to the Barney organism.