Really, what is it about George Will that he acts like such an ass in the face of reality?
In a column that has so much wrong, he writes:
Does [Transportation Secretary Roy LHood] think 0.01 percent of Americans will ever regularly bike to work?
Ygesias:
Will claims to find it unbelievable that as many as 0.01 percent of Americans would ever bike to work regularly. But rather than tossing off ridicule, he might have looked up the Census Bureau’s statistics on commuting patterns and seen that right now 0.4 percent of commuters normally get to work on bicycles. Now that’s a small percentage. But it’s forty times larger than a percentage that Will deems unrealistically utopian. This would be like saying Dwight Howard is 2 feet tall.
The rest of that Will column is equally atrocious, so follow the link above for all the gory details. Yglesias concludes:
Why does Newsweek want to offer its audience a columnist who wants to write about transportation polic but can’t be bothered to bring any facts or logic to the table?