May 2011
3 posts
notebook: Coming home tonight through Columbia... →
billcrandall:
Coming home tonight through Columbia Heights with the car windows down, nice night, it suddenly smelled powerfully of Eastern Europe outside. That slightly sweet burning-coal smell that anyone who’s spent time over there knows well. Not a DC smell at all, it definitely was not just a barbeque…
Anatomy of a Takedown: Metropolis Magazine...
The article itself doesn’t contain new information for those who have been following events, but it is a nice summary and includes some razor-sharp analysis:
While [bike lane opponents] probably skewed older than the auditorium as a whole, supporters and opponents didn’t break down neatly along demographic lines. What seemed to set opponents apart was an insularity, an attitude that...
