Last week, Washington Times columnist Charles Hurt made quite the splash by calling Capital Bikeshare “broken-down socialism.” Today we admit that he might have been right.

The Washington Times columnist who earlier today inveighed against Capital Bikeshare because it’s some sort of communist plot now says he doesn’t want to pay for bikes with “disease-spreading handlebars.”

To us, they’re conveniently located bikes used to hop around town. To a Washington Times columnist, Capital Bikeshare is “broken-down socialism” used by metrosexuals to pick up Chinese food. No, really.