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PROVISIONAL

When he procured her, she purveyed him. When he rationed her out, she made him provisional. On being

provisional, he made her his trough. On being a trough, she made him her silo. At once a silo, he made her his cut. On being a cut,

she made him her utensil. On being [...]

2 states, 2 executions, one 1 in the news.

Lost in the Troy Davis news debacle tonight was the fact that another man was executed in Texas tonight. Lawrence Russell Brewer, one of three men convicted for the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr., by dragging him for about 3 miles, including a mile or so after Byrd was decapitated when hit a culvert.

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LeMond v. Armstrong (more punches traded)

Greg LeMond believes a federal probe into fellow Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong should not be taken lightly, and could even bring about the downfall of the world’s most famous cyclist.

“Up until now, he has achieved great things, if you consider he did it fairly, which I don’t believe,” LeMond said in an [...]

More thoughts on Floyd's allegations

I’ve read a lot of articles today, and done a lot of thinking, and here is what I’ve decided.

I’m sure that there’s a lot of truth in Floyd Landis’s confession today, and I’m just as sure that there’s a lot of truth in his accusations as well … but I also think that the [...]

Armstrong’s blood (an American article)

This is what I wanted to see … some sort of coverage from the American press regarding the recent allegations about Lance Armstrong’s blood samples.

As Rasmus Damsgaard indicates in his response, and even as Mørkebjerg indicated in his original “interpretation” the numbers are hardly conclusive of anything, are really nothing more than speculation, [...]

Poetry Friday (a double dose)

TO MYSELF

Even when I forget you I go on looking for you I believe I would know you I keep remembering you sometimes long ago but then other times I am sure you were here a moment before and the air is still alive around where you were and I think then I can [...]

Loving the Obama Kool-aid, so far.

Knowing that many of the Obama faithful (and a number of skeptics) have been disappointed with some of his choices to fill various Cabinet positions, I found this article in Thursday’s Financial Times to be quite astute.

FT.com / Never mind the team: the president does the moves

The campaign poetry is long forgotten. [...]

Chicken ups and downs

On Tuesday:

VeloNews | Rasmussen suspended.

Denmark’s Michael Rasmussen, who was thrown out while leading the 2007 Tour de France for lying about his whereabouts, has been banned for two years by the Monaco cycling federation, the sport’s world governing body UCI said on Tuesday.

In a case brought by the UCI in February, a [...]

No right to privacy at the border

Laptops fair game for airport customs searches

Customs agents at U.S. airports don’t need any evidence of wrongdoing to search the contents of passengers’ laptop computers, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

Reinstating child pornography evidence against a passenger at Los Angeles International Airport, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said [...]

Quotes of the Day

“Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.” — David Wolf “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” — George Bernard Shaw “It’s hard to argue against cynics; they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.” — [...]