Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

SDB wrote a throw-away piece on a new motorcycle Harley-Davidson is building to attract a European market. And now, some folks are annoyed with him, for reasons I really can't discern. I'm amazed he's written not one, but two responses to critics of this post, thus using more words than he did in the first place! Wow. I chalk this up to the likelihood that his tongue wasn't so obviously in his cheek here as it was when he brought up the Discordians in an earlier post. Sort-of. (He uses the Discordians to make an actual point, but uses some humor along the way. It's subtle. Real subtle. So subtle you might miss it.)

Anyway, yeah, it's regrettable that Harley is making a "kinder, gentler" chopper for the Euro-set. (And I'm not even one to foam at the mouth on matters European, like SDB can do if he's gone too long without eating fiber.) But then, Harley doesn't have quite the cachet it used to in the US, either. Here's George Carlin on the subject. (WAV file, profanity alert.)