If you want to know what effect the Republican Convention and its attendant protests are having on New York City, you should bookmark Michele of Letters From New York City, even if only temporarily, because she's right in the streets and she's reporting things on the ground that you won't get anywhere else, like 5000 bicyclists clogging traffic for 3 hours all over the city.

Was it Bicyclists Against Bush?

Not originally.

It started as a group trying to bring attention to transportation alternatives.

But their protest was overwhelmed and hijacked by Bush haters.

Although I feel a guilty twinge of schadenfreude at the sight of a lefty organization eating it's young, what I mostly feel is anger.

Anger that the innocent bystanders of New York City - who REALLY have places to go and things to do and productive work to accomplish - were unnecessarily inconvenienced by thoughtless twerps. I just wish these spoiled children of privilege would exercise their right of free speech by using actual WORDS instead of making a traffic-congesting spectacle of themselves.

Actions aren't arguments, and even if they were, going out of your way to make people's lives miserable isn't a persuasive argument.

Unless the argument is about whether these asshats need a beating, in which case I've been thoroughly convinced.

An additional note, Michele also has interesting posts about:

The NYC subway bomb plot.

Protestors, both naked and clothed.

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