The surprise, of course, is that I’m actually getting a Friday Notes out.<\/p>\n
First, I apparently screwed up the first video in this post about Idiocracy<\/a> (yes, I note the irony).\u00c2\u00a0 Since no one told me about it, that means no one looked at the videos.\u00c2\u00a0 I blame you.\u00c2\u00a0 You are hereby sentenced to go watch it<\/a>.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n Do Virginia Republicans do anything but whine about non-existent attacks on them?\u00c2\u00a0 Del. Bill Carrico<\/a> 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Non-denoms are okay).\u00c2\u00a0 You’d think that the Fourth Circuit was burning Christians at the stake.\u00c2\u00a0 More about the issue here<\/a> (with a similarly overwrought tone) and here<\/a> (which brings it back to reality).<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n A friend turned me on the Fratellis’ Flathead track<\/a> last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Because Universal is still afraid of its customers, I can’t embed the video.\u00c2\u00a0 So check it out<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (Warning: this song came to me as a volley in an earworm war.)<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n CycleTo<\/a> – a well-produced site run by a fellow with a lot of access in the sport – picked up some of my shots<\/a> from last weekend’s ING Direct Capital Criterium<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 CycleTo does a lot of original short video interviews (like this recent one with Levi Leipheimer at Worlds in Varese<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re into pro cycling, give them a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n Looks like the Associated Press lent the McCain campaign<\/a> its time machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n You’ve probably recieved one of those fear-mongering “don’t wear buttons to the polls!” email this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Vivian Paige lays out the law for Virginia residents<\/a>, and Adam Bonin gives us a national view<\/a>.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n Sign war amusement<\/a>.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n It’s often easy to assume that all of humanity’s easy problems have been solved.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a reminder<\/a> that simple ideas can still make a difference.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n I somehow missed the recent skirmishes over the role of the US military personnel on American soil.\u00c2\u00a0 If you find it as interesting as I do, this is as good a place as any to jump in<\/a>.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n What are you do this weekend?\u00c2\u00a0 Depending on the weather, I’ll either be at Bike DC<\/a> or the Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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).\u00c2\u00a0 Since no one told me about it, that means no one looked at the videos.\u00c2\u00a0 I blame you.\u00c2\u00a0 You are hereby sentenced to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,7,4,8,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-politics","category-society","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}