Yeah. It's the kind of thing where for most folks it's just no bother. And it's a pretty minor expenditure in the grand scheme of things and even people who are never going to ride them tend not to get upset about traffic being calmed on their street unless they're weirdos.

It's something. But my favourite example is the signage for "The Tap Room" on 104 Street because it looks like it was cranked out with Poster Maker Plus in 1986. And their website was made by AI and invented several culinary awards they'd supposedly won.

Weird and upset that they are not given their complete undisciplined way with everything.

But the folks who get pants-shittingly irate knowing there's one a block over and who put a world of effort into imagining that it's not used are weird. The ones who will deliberately drive by it once in a while so they can claim to be inconvenienced are even weirder.

Most Edmontonians, even if they don't really like bike lanes, aren't bothered enough to make an issue of it. If you do consider them some kind of inconvenience, they're one that's easily avoided, because it's not like they're all over main thoroughfares.

And it's important to remember that these people are weirdos, or at best Windermere normal. But they're loud and they expect their beliefs to trump all others even when they can't scrape together enough folks to actually vote with them, and that's probably partly a function of who they are.

(And they lost that one by a long shot even with an ex CSIS mole impersonating a reporter and creating fake news articles alleging that the mayor was going to make a lot of money from that closure. Boy that was weird.)

It's like the "WE DID NOT HAVE PROPER CONSULTATION ON CLOSING THE AIRPORT THAT MAKES THE INNER CITY TERRIBLE" crowd. No, there was an entire municipal election where it was overwhelmingly the main issue. You lost, and kept right on losing election after election ever since.

Watching one of those guys who turned into a coot at 22 holler into the Facebook void on a neighbourhood group where a posting has been made about upcoming consultations on road and bridge renewal in Ritchie, "NO MORE BIKE LANES MIKEY," when "Mikey" just absolutely demolished his challengers.

I snorted at “sustained high performance”. Guy isn’t even much for walking around.

Like instead of killing off all of the local small businesses, it tends to actually encourage them because it's a stable well-paying employer and its stores have much more considerable pull than a typical big box store.

(Meanwhile, even though this was not a US operation until NATO intervened and we transitioned to IFOR, the Vietnam War experience loomed large over things, because actually stopping the Bosnian genocide was oft touted to be stepping into that sort of quagmire.)

But I needed his whole mess of complex bagpipe noises. It wasn't just his trauma, but his certainty that he took it full in the face not for flag waving but because he saw fascism and naziism for what they were. The sense that for all he'd seen, if you asked him, "Again?" Well...

There is a lot that I have learned about humanity from Vietnam War veterans, even though I am not of a country that was actively involved in that conflict. Many carried my grandfather's sadness.

I carried my late grandfather's letters home from the European theatre when I deployed to UNPROFOR. He was the old ghost that I needed in that time and place — his righteous fury, his sadness for a broken world, and his hope for a better one.

My money for cursing at a constituent would've been on Jason Nixon, probably while he was holding a rifle.

(Sad trombone noise.)

This was also the first place we saw Hallucigenia, a species SO BIZARRE that for a long time, nobody knew which end was up! Great poster by Nix Illustration here: