There are times that I realize how much different my life is now that I’m in law school. I made few friends yesterday in Property class when I said, “I can’t think of any rational or defensible reason why a same sex couple shouldn’t be able to get married in this country.” We had been Read the full article…

as defined by Dictionary-dot-com –noun satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune. Merriam Webster defines it thusly… Main Entry: scha·den·freu·de Function: noun Etymology: German, from Schaden damage + Freude joy Date: 1895 : enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others And Wikipedia has this : So no matter which way you look at it, Read the full article…

Southbound on the 101. Stabbing at the radio dial. NPR, no. Bullshit news station #2, no. Cockrock, no. Metal station, no. Then I hit the jackpot – a track off Van Halen I. Call me old, call me what you will. Shit was awesome. Those guys kicked ass and lived like drug addled kings. They Read the full article…

It all started on March 19, 2003. Photo gallery walk down memory lane at www.talkingpointsmemo.com. High five later.

Guest Post by Lawrence Wilkerson: Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S. prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that the media have largely missed and, thus, of which the American people are almost completely unaware. For that matter, few within the government who were not directly involved Read the full article…

Jim “Mad Money” Cramer was on the Daily Show last night. All I can say is – Wow. In the words of Andrew Sullivan: I watched the Daily Show with growing shock last night. Did you expect that? I expected a jolly and ultimately congenial discussion, after some banter. What Cramer walked into was an Read the full article…

A few somewhat interconnected thoughts with the common thread of “ride a bike.” A Modest Proposal – Bikers, Take the High Road Sometimes, when I am biking, I remember the ’80s, and I shudder. I remember, in other words, when biking was an extreme sport, when, if you were a biker, you had a lot Read the full article…

I found this note on a printer yesterday night. Seems some folks don’t much appreciate it when a fellow student shitcans one of the library’s two printers during mid-terms. There is a lot of love in this room tonight…

Over the last few weeks the RideClean Team has posted a couple nice early season results. It started with Rocket Ron busting out a “W” in the Flapjack TT, continued with J-Rod getting a nice 2nd at McDowell, and the following week my man The Flying Scholnick climbed on the podium in the Cat 2′s Read the full article…

Humpty popped this up in the comment section the other day. Cyclingnews.com has a little ditty from everyone’s favorite dirty-dirty Belgian L’enfant terrible. Well, read it. VDB. What more can you say? Dude is nuts. Vandenbroucke fought with equal dirty weapons Frank Vandenbroucke said that he won Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1999 “honestly”, because he and all Read the full article…

I found this over at the Velonews Mailbag this week. Seems pretty much on point. Thought I’d share. Re: The Armstrong/Kimmage exchange Editor, Speaking for myself as one of the many “around the world affected by (cancer),” (In my childhood, cancer claimed my father, and later on, my sister as well.) I hold nothing against Read the full article…

Herein, are just a few things that I just read this evening that kind of made me chuckle, or made me think about a few things, maybe they did for you as well, eh, then again, maybe not. You decide. Deride, if you will. Part the first: O’Grady’s recent tirade. As I normally do, I Read the full article…