Riding a bike 10 to 15 miles to work is not impossible. In fact, if your friend visits BikeForums.net and checks out the Commuter form, he will find many other folks who regularly commute much farther than that every day.

Though I have the fortune to work at home, I don’t have a car, and bicycle most everywhere.

anangryoldbroad @ 437

Harley(and probably other motorcycle dealerships)have riding courses,some are free,some aren’t. The biker community can be quite generous,it’s not just for outlaws anymore. My dentist is a biker,so is my husband.

If Dan has to take major highways to get to work,a moped/scooter type thing won’t be legal or safe.

also fixing up/maintaining an old harley could have a therapeutic effect.

I’m with you on the therapeutic part but Harleys are not cheap and while they may make good projects, that may not make for good transportation. There would also be a considerable outlay for tools to do anything serious.

Also a Harley is *not* a beginners bike. I’d suggest something like a used SV650 or maybe a KLR if he wants to do some dirt riding as well. There are lots of them around so parts are available. The BMW F series are reasonable too (for Beemers) and can be had with ABS, which is good for newbies.

I wish you had put up a fundraiser button. We could have raised money for used car for the guy by now. I know I would pitch in.

If you want to kick in some kitty, just email me. I’ll figure out a way to facilitate.

Oh. and good morning all! (I feel like Gene Kelly et al in that movie…I forget.

Singing in the Rain (wanted to contribute something)

Blank Kludge @ 443

Oh. and good morning all! (I feel like Gene Kelly et al in that movie…I forget.

anyway, it would deserve repeating if already in the 400-odd previous:

TSF comments on the WaPo Ashcroft saves the Constitution from hospital bed thing they ran.

The TSFman is perspicacious. And tenacious, too.

He’s all over the WaPo comments section re:Broder, also!

WaPo staff must be feeling like Butch and Sundance unable to avoid Lord Baltimore and Joe Lafors. “Who ARE these guys!?”

In the WaPo reading room: “Who IS this guy?!”

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Liberty University’s graduating class Saturday to honor the spirit of school founder Jerry Falwell by confronting “the growing culture of radical secularism” with Christian ideals.
…
“A growing culture of radical secularism declares that the nation cannot profess the truths on which it was founded,” Gingrich said. “We are told that our public schools can no longer invoke the creator, nor proclaim the natural law nor profess the God-given quality of human rights.

“In hostility to American history, the radical secularists insist that religious belief is inherently divisive and that public debate can only proceed on secular terms,” he said.

Gingrich also decried what he called judges’ overreaching efforts to separate church and state.

Oh. and good morning all! (I feel like Gene Kelly et al in that movie…I forget.

anyway, it would deserve repeating if already in the 400-odd previous:

TeddySanFran wrote:
Ashcroft was heavily medicated when he took the “brave stand” detailed herein.
All he really did was let the thugs know they had to speak with Comey who was,
incidentally, present, something the thugs had not yet acknowledged.

This is some of Steno Sue’s best work — rehabilitating the Attorney General
who raised the Terror Alert while in Moscow, alerting the US to the evil Padilla
and the Brooklyn Bridge “bomber.” Why not head to Miami, Sue, and cover the
actual Padilla trial, instead of writing worshipful pieces about Ashcroft?
5/19/2007 11:10:31 PM

TSF comments on the WaPo Ashcroft saves the Constitution from hospital bed thing they ran.

The TSFman is perspicacious. And tenacious, too.

He’s all over the WaPo comments section re:Broder, also!