Bicycling is an international conspiracy!

This politician in Colorado put a new spin, so to speak, on bicycle riding.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are "converting Denver into a United Nations community."

"This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed," Maes told about 50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial.

Maes said in a later interview that he once thought the mayor's efforts to promote cycling and other environmental initiatives were harmless and well-meaning. Now he realizes "that's exactly the attitude they want you to have."

"This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms," Maes said.

You thought riding a bicycle was harmless enough? Ha! That's just what they want you to think, you fool!

Exercise du jour: 3 miles jogging. Gotta get that run in now, before it becomes a constitutional issue.
Done! A day late, but I blame that on the international conspiracy.

"Monday morning. Time to pay for your two days of debauchery, you hungover drones"

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Quote du jour: The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda

Some interesting facts:
• It's a bad sign when co-workers start quitting even when they don't have new jobs lined up.
  
• Swallow rage long enough and you start to get a physical sore throat.
• When people use the term 'collaborate' they mean 'do it my way or else.'
• Exercise is a far, far better way to deal with frustration than keeping it pent up inside or otherwise taking life waaaay too seriously.
  

Site du jour: The Beyond the Stars has a post that reminds me there are other ways to live besides spending 40 hours a week gritting your teeth: 12 Lessons Learned from Year One of Jobless Freedom.

Exercise du jour: 10 miles cycling
Semi-fail. Or I suppose I could call it semi-done. I simply ran out of time. Got busy (walking the poor, tottering dog, reading an mss. someone sent me, doing chores) and left it too late. Still, got some cycling done. Plus walked 3 miles at lunch.

Not politically correct, but certainly morally apt

Warning: post contains quotations that contain language that might not be deemed appropriate for all audiences. If you're pregnant, or nursing, or know a pregnant nurse, you should be fine. But if you're under 5 years of age, a)I'm impressed at your reading level and b) don't read any further.

Site du jour: The Onion has an article that I thought particularly apt: Massive Flow of Bullshit Continues to Gush From BP's Headquarters. "Everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall environmental impact of this will be very, very modest," said BP CEO Tony Hayward, letting loose a colossal stream of undiluted bullshit. "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean, and the volume of oil we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total volume of water."

Exercise du jour: I'm going to try breaking up the exercise into Doable Bits^TM. To wit, 3 miles walking, 30 minutes ellipticalling.
Done!