Some friends invited me to join them on a “hobo” bike ride this past Sunday. We got on BART at 16th St. at 2:30 and rode an hour to the end of the line at Pittsburg. There we rode on a multi-use path along the outer reaches of Bay Area suburbs until we reached Somersville […]
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Critical Mass was its typical experience here last Friday. Maybe 1,500 riders or so, went straight up Market all the way to McAllister, then out McAllister, jog to Turk, west to Divisadero before turning left and heading into the Haight. Clearly whoever found themselves in front knew little about how to steer CM for maximum […] While in Italy I read a new book from Brazilian political theorist Roberto Mangabeira Unger called What Should the Left Propose? I don’t tend to identify with the label “left” these days (and certainly not “right”!) but I’m still interested in what different thinkers are coming up with as they try to grapple with this […] |
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