Using a Silencer

Posted on October 11, 2006
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The Washington Post reports that President Bush and close associates are expressing themselves on school violence without ever mentioning guns. The President “moderated an hour-long discussion about the rash of school shootings in the past week (including those at the Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania) without once mentioning the word ‘guns’.”

This is being relational about situations in which guns produced the havoc? No, it’s more like using a silencer on a shiny barrel.

Fun Busing to Work

Posted on October 4, 2006
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To begin thinking differently about public transportation, consider the case of Diane Fields, of Lebanon, PA, who boards a bus weekdays at 6 a.m. to her job as a state employee in Harrisburg, 25 miles west of her home.

The Lebanon Daily News reports that Ms. Fields, 59, has bonded with other passengers on the bus. “We’ve gotten to know each other,” she says. “There are times we’ve cried together when things have happened to one or the other.”

Ms. Fields used to drive to work at the Pennsylvania comptroller’s office and didn’t mind the time behind the wheel. But parking in Harrisburg became too expensive, along with the upkeep of her car. So she started commuting by bus seven years ago. “There’s a number of us who find it’s easier (to ride the bus), because they drop you off at your work site, and it’s only a couple of blocks for me to walk in the evening to come home again,” she said.

And the gang on the bus has a lot of fun togetrher. “It’s hilarious,” Ms. Fields says, “we make the bus driver laugh.”

To reduce the nation’s reliance on imported oil, public transportation needs a rennaisance. Before you dismiss that possibility, think of Ms. Flields and her friends on the Harrisburg bus.

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