
WABA
In her promotion tour for her new book, pictured above, Lenore Skenazy is cute, witty, charming and ironic. She says stuff like this:If you don't want to have your child in any kind of danger, you really can't do anything. You certainly couldn't drive them in a car, because that's the No. 1 way kids die, as passengers in car accidents.
Salon: Rationally, why aren't cars the bogeyman instead of stranger abduction?
Skenazy: It would change our entire lifestyle if we couldn't drive our kids in a car, and it's a danger that we just willingly accept without examining it too much, because we know that the chances are very slim that we're going to have a fatal car accident. But the chances are 40 times slimmer that your kid walking to school, whether or not she's they only one, is going to be hurt by a stranger.
Salon: Isn't it ironic that parents are driving around their kids to protect them, but riding in a car is the greater danger?
Skenazy: Oh, it's all ironic!


BEST: THEWASHCYCLE
SECOND-BEST: BIKES FOR THE REST OF US
TheWashCycle scours local media for news of interest to cyclists.
Bikes for the Rest of Us tries to get you riding, and not just for fun.
“For too long, the US bicycle industry has made the tacit assumption that bicycling is a recreational or fitness activity,” David Moskovitz, 35, one of the site’s authors, writes in an e-mail. “The needs and desires of the person who uses a bike to get around town are very different.”
To that end, Bikes for the Rest of Us periodically presents a new bike model, running down its utility-cycling bona fides: racks, fenders, chainguards — basically anything that makes a bike useful instead of fast.
“Tell interested non-cyclists that they need special clothes and shoes to take a ten mile ride on a Sunday afternoon, and see how many takers you get,” says Moskovitz. “[F]irst we have to get them on the bikes. We can worry about the stuff later.”
—Andrew Beaujon
