What’s Guaranteed to Set Me Off

Well if you must know, it'd be, for example, when a well-meaning employee emails a link to "Bike To Work Day" to all employees. Here's the touchstone of disgust: Throughout the Bay Area, dozens of local events taking place during the month of May will get people excited about bicycling and the benefits it provides for public health, traffic reduction and our environment. The best description I can think of on the fly is that of a smiley face telling you how great your sacrifices are going to be for everyone and everything else but you. I love bikes. We got bikes. I use mine often, particularly so since the weather has warmed up. Why do I use the bike? Because it's the best thing for me, according to the context of the particular facts of the specific event in which I intend to use it. I live downtown, and it's usually far more pleasant, for me, to take the bike -- not the least of which is parking. And, it's just plain fun. You know, it's always about guilt, isn't it? Either you're vermin who're messing up god's perfect universe, or you're more sophisticated -- not so weak minded...


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Richard Nikoley

I started writing Free The Animal in late 2003 as just a little thing to try. 20 years later, turns out I've written over 5,000 posts. I blog what I wish...from diet, health, lifestyle...to philosophy, politics, social antagonism, adventure travel, expat living, location and time independent—while you sleep— income by geoarbitrage, and food pics. I intended to travel the world "homeless," but the Covidiocy Panicdemic squashed that. I became an American expat living in Thailand. I celebrate the audacity and hubris to live by your own exclusive authority and take your own chances. ... I leave the toilet seat up. Read More

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