On Yer Bikes !

Of all the kinds of sexual intercourse, this has least to recommend it. As an amusement it is too fleeting, as an occupation it is too wearing; as a public exhibition there is no money in it.
It has, in our last day of progress and improvement, been degraded to brotherhood with flatulence--among the best bred, these two arts are now indulged only in private--though by consent of the whole company, when only males are present, it is still permissible, in good society, to remove the embargo upon the fundamental sigh.
- Mark Twain, Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism speech, 1879
The New York Transit Workers and their Labor Union are edging towards a strike in The City. And well they should. Somebody needs to speak truth to power, Right On!
Starting salaries for operators is an insulting $53,000/year. Before overtime. Cops and firefighters start at about $25 grand, but they don't have to work underground in those inhumane, cavelike conditions, deal with the surly public, or spend their working hours buzzed on dope and running over small children.
In the week following the firing of the Air Traffic Controllers by President Reagan, there were 45,000 applications for 11,000 openings. But that was under Reagan. Not a Bloomenegger RINO.
Power to the Correct People!

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