Two interesting articles over at “Active.com“http://www.active.com:
First, a Kelme (Spanish Bank) cyclist comes clean about doping in European cycling: Manzano’s account is chillingly detailed. He has demonstrated how to inject EPO, an artificial hormone that increases red corpuscles and how to beat the tests that detect it. He reported that he almost died on a train after being given drugs for racing.
Couple this with Pantani kicking the bucket back in February, Lance Armstrong ditching Kristen and the kids to hang with Sheryl Crow, and cycling has had a rough off-season.
The second grenade that Active.com threw is this: Stretching may not actually reduce injuries. Which is good news for slugs like me who prefer to strap on the shoes and hit the road, and then pass out on the couch when I get home.
today’s reason: not the Letterman fiasco — which would bring out Chomskian cospiracy theories about the Bushies generating a lot of lies to distract the public from their biggest lies — but instead I give you “he’s not presidential material without his support group”
Some conservatives want to know what the big deal is behind W and Dick having to speak with the comission jointly. I’ve got a pretty good answer to that. The big deal is that it gives creedence to the impression that W is not running the country and needs Cheney to explain what’s been going on, or that he can’t handle the commision by himself. Maybe W is not “in the loop” and requires the presence of someone who is. I’m not a history buff, so someone set me straight. Did Nixon need handlers? I’m pretty sure Clinton was alone in the room. What other historical presidential precedent(ial) is there for a POTUS needing his buddy with him on the stand?
I won’t mention the fact that speaking in private, not under oath compounds these issues of mistrust. (I miss rick. I hope he gets moved into his house soon.)
Werner Heisenberg is pulled over for speeding. Traffic cop: “Do you know how fast you were going?” Heisenberg: “No, but I know exactly where I am.”
Go check out Homestar Runner today or you might miss their April Fool’s special edition.
p.s. Any Flash animators out there who want to help me create a parody site called Ham-star Runner?
President Bush Legalizes Marijuana In America
Historic Executive Order to Take Effect on April 20
April 1, 2004
Washington, DC: In a move that astonished conservatives and liberals
alike, President George W. Bush issued a surprise executive order today
legalizing the possession and sale of marijuana in the United States. The
order will take effect on April 20, long considered marijuana smokers’
independence day.
When asked about the sudden change of heart, President Bush explained;
“The other night Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell and I were in the war room
mulling over how to sway public opinion on the war in Iraq. We were stuck
in the same rut of tired old ideas and were in desperate need of creative
new ways of thinking. That’s when Karl Rove pulled out a fatty.” While
Bush admitted that it had been 30 years since his last toke, he figured,
“Why not. I am the President. What can they do, arrest me?”
You gotta spend some time digging through Rebelations.
The people who wrote the Book of Job also built the Sphinx and the Osireion at Abydos, in Ancient Egypt – both of which are over 10,000 years old. They left wall writings in the Osireion that tell of a great war in the sky, and a fall from grace.
Eventually the various threads come together, and silhouette a new story all together. The mythical civilization described by Frank Herbert in the Dune books was not mythical at all, but a genetic memory. Dune did exist, and it was a galactic federation. The minds of men propelled huge ships to every corner of the cosmos, but they went too far, too soon and they lost this power ~ just like it says in the Book of Job.
The center of their civilization was Dune – our little neighbor Mars. The cosmos is alive with people, every planet just like Earth – isolated, struggling to return to deep space. Perhaps technology will succeed this time, where mental prowess failed before…
Officially this is an appeal to my dismissal from graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was a semester short of a PhD in Celestial Mechanics. You will find my research here, details of my dismissal, and all the ancillary issues.
Get your wagon primed and ready for another internet gold rush. Google is introducing an email service that will surely have nerds scrambling to collect their nicknames in google-space.
Speaking of which, I’m willing to sell etrigan@yahoo.com to the highest bidder.
Givin’ props to Dante:
The Dante’s Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very High |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Moderate |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Low |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Moderate |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante’s Inferno Test
I burned one of my iTunes caps (got to link to Pepsi for the coolest promotion ever) on Prince’s new joint, Musicology. Pure, straight up old school funk, with samples of good old ’80s Prince at the end.
I dropped my other caps on Clapton’s new album, “Me and Mr. Johnson”, a collection of Robert Johnson covers. For a white boy, Clapton is a blues god. Good NPR bit yesterday morning with Bob Edwards. Endearing BE to us all should be Bob’s exclamation “You are the Master! You retired the trophy!” after Clapton says he’s still trying to get it right (4:40 or so into the story). I dunno that I’d go that far, but if you’re looking to add some no-risk blues, Clapton is a good bet.
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