Thursday, March 22, 2007

Don't litter - It's not polite!!!

...oops my mistake, this is a citizen's private stash of garbage.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Dudes!

Joseph Frederick’s - Bong Hits for Jesus –

Folks you gotta pull you head out of whatever hole they are currently in. If the Supreme Court rules that the school has the authority to censor Frederick’s speech, then it opens the door (widely I might add) for all sorts of judgment on what can and can’t be said. Fredrick was breaking no laws. He was simply expressing a statement which the principal of his school judged to be offensive. The principal’s judgment and actions are not acceptable and neither is limiting the freedom of our speech regardless of its quality.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Bong Hits for Jesus - Bong Hits for Justice

Remember Kenneth Star of Clinton and Moinca Lewinski fame? Ever wonder what he is doing now? Check this out!

After reading this article, it appears that the Bush loaded supremes are indeed right. That is, right (of center) favoring limitations free speech. So remember, next time you are protesting, don't write anything on your banner that is con traversal!

Confidential to Johan Museeuw: Your interview in the April, 2007, issue of Cycle Spot reveals what a tool your are!

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Sly Stallone, Holyfield, medical marijuana… I must say who the hell cares.

In the case of Stallone, he’s a rich old man. Who gives a rip if he is pumped up on ‘roids. Evidently the Australian Customs officials do, because he was popped in the airport the other day for carrying something like 48 vials of human growth hormone in his suitcase. Perhaps it was his vacation supply. What a habit. Of course if he was attempting to import it himself, I ‘gotta’ say, Sly, have you ever hear of FEDEX or some sort of high priced, discrete drug mule?

Then there is Evander -cruiser weigt to heavyweight-Holyfield who, as it turns out, is under investigation for being on the gear for some of those later heavyweight fights in his career. “Holyfield admits to taking a drug from the pharmacy, but says it was for a "hormonal problem." Holyfield claims Tyson was juicing as well. Again, I gotta say who cares. This is two men beating each other. If you have to pump up a little to get through having your head clanged for a couple hours, so be it.

Finally, there is medical marijuana. – San Francisco, “A federal appeals court upheld the U.S. government's authority Wednesday to prosecute medical marijuana patients in California, but left open the possibility that a gravely ill patient could defend against criminal charges by showing that marijuana was her only shield against excruciating pain or death.” Good job feds. REALLY bully to you. Stick it to the sick pothead who just wants to be pain free.

So here is the tally: We have one old man who the entire universe knows is on steroids busted for being on steroids. (Confidential to those police folks: good investigatory work, I had no idea Stallone what using. What a revelation.) We’ve got a heavy weight busted for juicing against a crazed, tattooed ear-biter. And finally, the courts upheld the authority of the government to prevent sick people form using THC. The funny thing is, all of these folks will continue to use, but it’s the sick and tired who are trying to deal with maladies like glaucoma, chemo side-effects and pain, who will be prosecuted for their use.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Surge spurge

So, i guess the surge is more of the same from bush and co. Isn't bait and switch illegal?

Friday, March 09, 2007

Mail Bag

Dear Crow, I ride an adult tricycle. I don’t feel comfortable writing into all those cyclo-clique blogs. However, I feel as though I have some of the same issues. Sincerely, “TriC-onfused”

Dear T-C. While I’ll never understand the need for three wheels when clearly two will do, I do have some experience with tricycles in the form of those plastic big wheels. As a child, I believe I destroyed a few of my own and likely my neighbors doing awesome skids and jumps on my family’s dirt driveway. Anyhow, do not concern yourself with second rate cycling blogs or the minutia perpetuated by them. I suggest spending the time you would have spend on two-wheel blogs shopping at your local thrift store for some keen pedal pushing pants to go with your third wheel. – CROW

Dear Crow, I’m young and I fear that I’ll develop cervical cancer. I hear it is real common after an HPV infection and that lots of women and men get this HPV. Sincerely, Fear

Dear Fear, cervical cancer, as with all cancers, is a scary thing. However, Fear, there is hope which may alleviate your fear while frustrating you at the same time. The stats are something like 90 percent of women will have been exposed to HPV by the time they are 30 making it the most common sexually transmitted infection in men and women in the United States and, up to 70 percent of all cervical cancer is directly related to HPV infections. The bright spot in all of this is that now there is a vaccine, which has proven to be highly effective against HPV (nearly 100% effective in clinical trials.) However, enter frustration, abstainers and the Christian-right don’t want to vaccinate young girls because they fear that cervical cancer has been the one barrier that has kept hoards of little girls from being sexually promiscuous. CF, I hope you haven’t had sex yet, because it might be a while before you can get this vaccine in you, and it’s only effective prior to exposure. PS, go see you doctor.–CROW

Crow, what do you think of low riding pants? - Pants down low.

Dear PDL, I’m Kinda up in the air on this issue and likely sexist at the same time. I’m not into (and don’t wear) pant that expose my ars. However, on the right woman a pair of well-suited, low-rise jeans is really nice. Think Lost’s Evangeline Lilly. –CROW

New Counter


Really, the counter is old news but new to this site. PS, don't get the rather large 400 billionish number to the right confused the hit counter.

NEWS

I happened to be scanning the news today. Here are the highlights and my sardonic comments:

The rich stay rich, and acquire more riches at a younger age. The top two mega-billionaires of the Forbes list…Gates and Buffet. So what?

Airbus forces European conglomerate EADS to slash profits 86%. I guess that’s a group of aristocrats that won’t be getting richer or younger. I sense some real production of gray hair. Of course, it’s the European working stiff that really took it in the shorts. Something like 10,000 jobs have been cut at Airbus.

More blather on the whole HPV vaccine debate. It really comes down to this. Boys are circumcised for health reasons all over the world. The procedure is generally completed within several weeks of birth to prevent infection and other penile peril later in life. While circumcision is widely excepted for it’s protective measures later in life, it’s blatantly unfair that a vaccine that has proven to be nearly 100% effective against HPV and subsequent cervical cancer in clinical trials would be resisted on the basis that the target population (young girls) may perceive a message from society or parents of sexual permissiveness. Is the Christian right really saying boys, we believe that snipping you is good for your reproductive health later in life but girls we aren’t going to vaccinate you against the most common sexually transmitted infection because we fear what message it sends to you?

I’m heading in to the weekend. The cherry trees are starting to bloom. Let’s hope there in no more snow down in the lowlands.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

snow job


For those of you wondering, this tree is just outside my house. It was a 15 second exposure. I waited for the moon.