Another edition of Flagstaff’s longest running underground race & Fourth of July festival, the Cruiser Nation, is in the books. It is a downhill (mostly) run on single speeds at high noon, winner take all, full on local bragging rights grudge match. And, for the rest, an excuse to act like a moron out in Read the full article…

The script has been flipped and Alessandro Petacchi will not be at start line of this years Tour de France. Oh, my head is spinning around in circle. He’s in, he’s out, in, back out. Are we set yet? Alessandro Petacchi lost his spot on Milram’s Tour de France team on Wednesday after being charged Read the full article…

Click to view Keith Olbermann’s special comment on Bush’s actions in commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby from last night’s Countdown. (I’d rather embed the video in this post, but it messes up the page view in Internet Explorer. And since 80.2 % of recent viewers are using Windows, I gotta go with Explorer compliant Read the full article…

This is an instant message between Frankie Andreu (FDREU) and Jonathan Vaughters (Cyclevaughters) the morning of July 26, 2005. it was was originally posted on CBC Sports Online on January 3, 2006: Cyclevaughters: frankie – hey – thanks for talking the other day FDREU: no problem, where are you Cyclevaughters: back in CO FDREU: nice, Read the full article…

I found this article titled: Beneficial effects of erythropoietin on haematological parameters, aerobic capacity, and body fluid composition in patients on haemodialysis. To be certain, haemodialysis is serious business. Not fun at all. These were some sick people. But look at these numbers: Eleven patients on haemodialysis were treated with erythropoietin (EPO), 50-200 U kg-1 Read the full article…

A few articles I’ve read today. In commuting I. Lewis Libby’s prison sentence yesterday, President Bush took the advice of, among others, William Otis, a former federal prosecutor who wrote on the opposite page last month that Mr. Libby should neither be pardoned nor sent to prison. We agree that a pardon would have been Read the full article…

I can see the man’s point. I heard the moving van pull up this morning. When I got home this evening I happened to spy my neighbor (he’s like 85 years old – I don’t know exactly, but he’s old, talks and moves very slowly) standing on the sidewalk next to the van. I walked Read the full article…

One question I keep coming back to: I keep reading (all over the damn place) that in regards to Libby’s conviction, it was somehow erroneous because “no underlying crime had been committed” and Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has not brought anyone up on charges (read: Dick Armitage) for revealing the name of an undercover CIA Read the full article…

This is fucking great stuff. From: Graeme Subject: Hey guess what? You live in a dictatorship !!! Over here, we’ve had the first attack in Scotland with a flaming car attempting to drive into the airport terminal whilst the occupants throw petrol bombs out. Thankfully since the seventies, terminal entrances have been designed to stop Read the full article…

Sunday I decided it was time to ride. Lovedog had asked me join him on an “easy” ride. I should have known he’d bend me over a barrel and give me the business. But I’m a dumb ass. I met him ’round about 9:00am. And only then did I find out we were also riding Read the full article…

I’ve been seeing this around the web tonight, the argument that Bush commuted Libby’s sentence rather than opting for the full pardon in order to shield himself and Darth Cheney from further scrutiny. I believe this is probably the closest to the truth we’re going to get in this matter. Well, George did it. Made Read the full article…

File this under “you gotta be fucking kidding me”. President Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case. Bush left intact a $250,000 fine and two years probation for Libby, according to a senior White House official, who Read the full article…