Virginia. Where parents get 27 months in prison sound for hosting a party for their son’s 16th birthday party and providing alcohol. Their mom, Elisa Kelly, and her ex-husband, George Robinson, are paying the price for hosting Ryan’s 16th birthday party — more than two years in jail each. Ryan had asked his mother to [...]

OK, let’s get this straight as reported in Velonews. T-Mobile fields a top tier cycling team for about $12 million (a mentioned figure of the cost for a top tier team, I don’t know the real numbers). They also dump $1 million Euros into sponsoring the Tour de France within Germany. Now, because of the [...]

Oh shitty. From: Doug Just incase you are not up to speed. WORLD Criterium Championships will be held During Interbike Thursday Sept 27th. The event will have Men and Women Pro-Class races, and for Interbike exhibitors, an Industry Cup Challenge (info here) worldcriteriumchampionships.com/wp/?page_id=8. The Pro-Women’s race will be at 7:00 P.M., the Industry Cup at [...]

Would you believe recent polling shows the same number of people know about John Edwards’ $400 haircut that know that Iraq did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction? And that would be right around 45% of people in this country. Source: electioncentral.tpmcafe.com Good luck trying to blame that on the liberal media bias, cowboy. In [...]

A reader submission: From: Eric have you seen this? Bill Strickland over at Bicycling, soft-pedaling his implicit first-hand knowledge of doping… sittingin.bicycling.com pardon my french, but what a fucking wanker. and yeah that’s me shouting from the soapbox in the comments. I know a bit about doping as well. And what I’ve always said is [...]

Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off today for the first shuttle mission of 2007. There is no truth to the rumor that Paris Hilton, Alberto Gonzales, Ivan Basso, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, everyone who ever appeared on “Survivor,” “Dancing With the Stars” or “American Idol,” the editorial board of The Washington Post, Ann Coulter, Michael [...]

The extent of pent up anger in the general population never ceases to amaze me. I casually blew past a Mercedes “Roadster” SLK class hunk-of-junk as it sat with right turn blinker on, waiting for the non-traffic to pass. Just sitting at the stop sign, a few miles into my commute. The owner fussing with [...]

Back when men were men and sheep were nervous……. Big Jonny and Gnome, at their finest…… snake

Here is today’s link dump: [blogness] teamhacksaw.wordpress.com [sex addiction] blazinggrace.org [bitch'n] sonyclassics.com/americanhardcore [blogness] theyearofthebicycle.blogspot.com [floydness] marketplace.publicradio.org [word] masiguy.blogspot.com

I thought about posting a poem I wrote. Never done it before, at least not that I can remember. And why not just post one? I’ve got a few of the little bastards sitting around, both on paper and in my head. Tonight is as good as any other night. Here goes: Poetry What I [...]

I was three years younger than Paris Hilton is now when I got thrown in the Denver City-County Jail drunk tank in 1977 because a buddy of mine got lippy with a salty Colfax copper during my going-away party (I had just graduated college and was moving to Vermont, so a few of us thought [...]

Another pic from my glorious return to racing at the Whiskey 50. Do I look bored or what? From: Sean Since you liked that last one so much, here’s one that my wife took at the 15 start, conveniently resized to emphasize the look of malaise. Malaise would be the operative word.