by Chris Bodenner
Chris Orr calls it:
The peculiar, and rather disappointing, Andy Roonification of George Will seems ongoing. There was, course, his extended climate-change crankery, and then his curmudgeonly and wildly ill-informed diatribe against denim. Now, in Newsweek, Will takes aim at Portland, Oregon, and efforts to reduce auto traffic generally. After tossing off a bit of increasingly characteristic faux populist posturing–is Will, the American male perhaps least likely ever to have operated a piece of heavy machinery, really the right person to rhapsodize Peoria, Illinois as the home of Caterpillar Inc.?–he suggests that no conceivable changes in public policy could ever persuade "0.01 percent of Americans [to] bike to work."
Yglesias tears apart that last prediction with, um, facts.
The Dish 