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Hello and welcome to the Slate political gab fest for July 26th, 2013, the hay sucker, you'll never ever make partner edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, and I'm the number one target, apparently, of all of America's BMW drivers. I have never gotten so much response for something I have written or said

as from the chatter I did last week about BMW drivers and cyclists. Cyclists love me. I could be

born, like, on a litter of cycles down Connecticut Avenue, protected from all BMW drivers.

BMW drivers, very, very annoyed.

Although many of them did acknowledge that they were, in fact, menacing to cyclists.

Based on the email, it seems like you were winning 9 to 1.

Yeah, I definitely was winning 9 to 1.

And also the one against you seemed to be embarked upon an endeavor to prove everything you had said in your post in being sort of overwrought, obtuse, and jerk-like.

So I thought you may have won 10 to 1.

I was touched about the people who feared for your safety.

Oh, were there people who feared for my safety?

Yes. Oh, that's people who feared for my safety? Yes.

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