It seems the entirety of the bike blogosphere is collectively moaning/chortling at the vastly out of touch vitriole Wall Street Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz spews forth in the video below.

But if you’ve missed it, watch on. Gaze upon on the terror that is to be loosed on unsuspecting Portlanders (maybe) next spring. Our finest neighborhoods “begrimed, is the word.”

“The most important danger in the city is not the yellow cabs,” Rabinowitz avers. “It is the bicyclists.”

We’ve been warned. But is it too late?

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5 replies on “Dorothy Rabinowitz’s Bike Invective is Somehow Comforting”

  1. Dorothy, my dear: I’m sorry, but i didn’t hear too much of what you said — all i could think about during your cute little interview o’ indignance was the huge number of tanker-trucks and the legions of chemists that must be necessary in order to keep you in hair dye.

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