This column is more about the gentrification of DC than it is about bicyclists. The elderly parishioners are African-Americans who have lived in DC their whole lives and are now being priced out/forced out by new arrivals wanting bike lanes, dog parks, etc.

I'm not saying gentrification is good or bad--it's a fact of life. But the DC-centric issues this column addresses (and the gentrification in DC is massive, much more so than here) might be lost on a bicycling columnist from a Portland alternative weekly.

Portland Mercury Comenter Calls Paul Constant "Shitty-Writer," Makes Joke About Hitting Them with Sock Full of Quarters

Old news, this was circulating on BSNYC a couple of weeks ago..

The column was written two weeks ago, and the subsequent backlash was published from coast to coast. This is poor re-posting even by Paul Constant's standards.

^One thing is constant with Paul: ...dissappoint.