The surprise, of course, is that I’m actually getting a Friday Notes out.
First, I apparently screwed up the first video in this post about Idiocracy (yes, I note the irony). Since no one told me about it, that means no one looked at the videos. I blame you. You are hereby sentenced to go watch it.
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Do Virginia Republicans do anything but whine about non-existent attacks on them? Del. Bill Carrico was just on WAMU’s Politics Hour going on about how awful it is that the Fourth Circuit said a state employee can’t use his office to lead a mass prayer to Jesus Christ (in particular. Non-denoms are okay). You’d think that the Fourth Circuit was burning Christians at the stake. More about the issue here (with a similarly overwrought tone) and here (which brings it back to reality).
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A friend turned me on the Fratellis’ Flathead track last week. Because Universal is still afraid of its customers, I can’t embed the video. So check it out. (Warning: this song came to me as a volley in an earworm war.)
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CycleTo – a well-produced site run by a fellow with a lot of access in the sport – picked up some of my shots from last weekend’s ING Direct Capital Criterium. CycleTo does a lot of original short video interviews (like this recent one with Levi Leipheimer at Worlds in Varese). If you’re into pro cycling, give them a look.
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Looks like the Associated Press lent the McCain campaign its time machine.
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You’ve probably recieved one of those fear-mongering “don’t wear buttons to the polls!” email this week. Vivian Paige lays out the law for Virginia residents, and Adam Bonin gives us a national view.
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Sign war amusement.
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It’s often easy to assume that all of humanity’s easy problems have been solved. This is a reminder that simple ideas can still make a difference.
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I somehow missed the recent skirmishes over the role of the US military personnel on American soil. If you find it as interesting as I do, this is as good a place as any to jump in.
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What are you do this weekend? Depending on the weather, I’ll either be at Bike DC or the Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival.