Yep, me too. And I'm going to ride my motorcycle and use paved roads and buy tires.

Here's an interesting NYTs article on this very topic of your second-to-last paragraph: a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27FOB-WWLN-t.html?_r=1... this quote particularly resonates with me: For those who have staked out extreme positions, backtracking may not be easy: “It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his tribal identity depends on his not understanding it,” Bérubé notes. Maybe it’s time for some new identity politics.