The trouble with your view, TWL, is that judges don't and can't just make up their interpretation of the law as they go along. Every day I'd like to do something different than the law requires in a case, but I can't and I don't because the law does not allow it. Now, it's true that I'm at the low end of the judicial food chain and reversing me isn't real hard if I'm wrong, but I know that the overwhelming majority of judges try hard to follow the law in every decision they make. Judges make plenty of mistakes, and that's why there are appellate courts. I don't profess to know anything more about Colorado law than I've read in the briefs filed in this case, but I am not impressed with the judge's opinion in this case. He ruled that the part of the ordinance allowing the city to exempt local cyclists was illegal, even though that issue was not before him. The idea that cycling can be prohibited because they can walk their bikes is, in legal terms, whacked.

And I've been banned from watching Fox News for all eternity because it raises my blood pressure into stroke territory.