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VeloNews | Tech Report: The Campagnolo 11-speed Super Record group

In Feltre, Italy, this week, just 15km away from the memorial to Tullio Campagnolo at the summit of the Croce d’Aune pass, Campagnolo reintroduced its Super Record racing group.

Super Record was Campagnolo’s mystical racing group, but it has been decommissioned for more than [...]

Video Poetry (Religious Edition)

BAD RELIGION – AMERICAN JESUS

I don’t need to be a global citizen ‘Cuz I’m blessed by nationality I’m a member of a growing populace We enforce our popularity There are things that seem to pull us under and There are things that drag us down But there’s a power and a vital presence [...]

God & Politics

My mother sent me more mom-spam yesterday, this one being a purported re-write of the Preamble of the Constitution, accompanied by a series of articles. Some of the articles are basic pleas to common sense. But one in particular really got my goat.

ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country’s [...]

Party-driven (or driven away)

The Long Defeat – New York Times

Last week, an important Clinton adviser told Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (also of Politico) that Clinton had no more than a 10 percent chance of getting the nomination. Now, she’s probably down to a 5 percent chance.

Five percent.

Let’s take a look at what she’s going [...]

Nader Announces Third-Party Run for President

From this morning’s New York Times (online):

Nader Announces Third-Party Run for President – New York Times By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:27 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and [...]

State of the Union

RISE AGAINST – STATE OF THE UNION

If we’re the flagship of peace and prosperity, We’re taking on water and about to fucking sink. No one seems to notice, no one even blinks. The crew all left the passengers to die under the sea.

Countdown to the very end. Equality; an invitation that we [...]

Organise!

BILLY BRAGG – THERE IS POWER IN A UNION

There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hands of a worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don’t stand There is power in a Union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers’ [...]

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.” — [...]

Poetry Friday

LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong [...]

Poetry Friday

Girl Lithe and Tawny

Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plums the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of the water.

A black ravenous sun bathes you in the thread of your black mane, when you [...]