Big Bill McBeef swept me up once again this morning and dragged me out to the Air Force Academy for a chilly group ride, and this time I remembered to bring some ID, more’s the pity. The AFA is a hilly place that once hosted the world road championships, and as a consequence I spent [...]
J.D. Salinger has finally gone where nobody can bother him.
“Catcher in the Rye” may have been the first real book to capture my attention. I had read a ton of crap — both my parents were fiends for education, never having had much themselves, and I had a library card about 30 seconds after exiting [...]
“You didn’t get me down, Ray … you never got me down.”
The long-awaited Apple tablet was announced today, and the name — iPad — is apparently causing much snickering for perfectly predictable reasons. Hell, I snickered myself when I glanced at the live-bloggery surrounding what appeared to be an iPod Touch on growth hormone.
“That’s fuckin’ stupid,” I thought. “Who wants one of those?”
Later in the day [...]
Three jerseys on the ride today. Bibs, tights, wool socks, booties, tuque, winter gloves, jacket stowed in a pocket, and the water bottle stayed cold from start to finish. Feh.
January apparently takes its name from Janus, the god of the doorway. Well, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way through [...]
Over at AlterNet, Greg Palast writes: “In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations should be treated the same as ‘natural persons,’ i.e. humans. Well, in that case, expect the Supreme Court to next rule that Wal-Mart can run for President.”
This very scenario was envisioned decades ago by cartoonist Gilbert Shelton [...]
The people of Arizona clearly have sold their souls to the Devil and this is the upshot. Well, this and John McCain, who is full of more bad noise and wind than any tornado.
The weather is deteriorating here, too. I probably should’ve done a long ride yesterday, but instead I went to Old Town Bike [...]
Hm. We seem to have drifted into a parade of obits here. So let’s have another — this one, for health-care reform, which apparently croaked last night with the election of dingbat Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate.
Political Animal’s Steve Benen seems particularly sour this morning, noting that a Senate seat once held by John F. [...]
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