Uneasy Rhetoric

My friends over at Motel Magazine have just started a new political blog for those who are now motivated to do something, anything, to elect a new President.
The new blog is called Political Motel, and yours truly will be a contributor. It just got started, but check back from time to time.

Transportation policy and health policy together? When the mode of transportation is your own two feet, absolutely.
The Path to a Healthier America. NY Times, March 24, 2004.
The NRDC is encouraging transportation planners to include thinking about health and obesity in their planning. As the article says, Expending calories instead of gasoline flattens stomachs and [...]

Here’s a new look! The only thing I have left to do is a quick page on image sources. (update: done!) Everything will be original, public domain, or allowed under Creative Commons, but I do want to give credit where due.
I’m also going to use several different images, eventually.

My friend Rob had a very good letter to the editor on gay marriage published in Salon. Scroll about halfway down the page. It starts “Having lived in the Netherlands for the past two years…”
He gets right to the point of the matter:
“The right wing and its minions have defined our debates for far too [...]

There are a few issues where having a Hollywood governor, even a Republican one, might not be such a bad thing:

Schwarzenegger could accept gay marriage If voters, courts approve it, he’d have no problem with it, he tells Jay Leno.
If Gov. Schwarzenegger asked me what he needed to do to win a second term, my [...]