Kunstler Lays the Smackdown on Upstate New York

Burger King was doing some kind of promotion in its Watertown huts and the marquee in their several parking lots proclaimed — I swear to God — “Ask us about our Angry Burger.” WTF? Is the rage of lumpen America so repressed now that it can only be expressed in menu items that turn people into hulking four-hundred-pound monsters?

It was, I’m sad to say, a relief to cross the border out of my own country. Once you got off the main highway of Canada, 401, along the north side of Lake Ontario, the landscape presented a disturbing contrast to what you saw on the American side. Unlike the slovenly, failing farms of New York State, the farms of Ontario looked successful and prosperous. The barns did not tilt at weird angles and the roofs were intact...

The US Government has decided to drive a Chevrolet off the cliff Thelma and Louise style. We were heading there anyway, so why not make the trip in air-conditioned comfort, with plenty of room for all the family members, and on-board video entertainment for the little ones. In fact, it may not be the bankruptcy of GM itself that will amaze and appall the other nations of the world, so much as the US government’s pretense that the company can return to health in just a little while and pay back all the money that the citizenry has allowed to be sucked into its black hole of losses.

From one of James Kunstler's comments in: http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/28/why-i-dont-agree-with-james-kuntsler-about-peak-oil-and-the-end-of-suburbia/

Controversy over Bike Racks at Hutchinson Central Tech High School

Buffalo Rising reports here on the controversy of installing racks near the school: http://www.buffalorising.com/2009/04/green-options-buffalo-hutch-tech-gets-a-bike-rack.html

There's a dawning bicycle culture out there, and the green message has been preached to these students since pre-K. It's nice to know they'll have some green options.

Student travel safety and property security are a concern, as they are at other urban schools around the United States. How can these concerns be mitigated?

Buffalo Bike Racks On The Way!

Coverage from Buffalo Rising: http://www.buffalorising.com/2009/06/more-bicycle-racks-on-the-way---sign-up-for-yours.html

Buffalo's Commercial District Bicycle Parking Program is responsible for 70 racks, and because of the demand, more are on the way.