Recent content by Glaucon

As Napoleon Dynamite might've said, "I caught you a delicious bass ... filled with lead." Reality has just out-Onioned the Onion.

Yes, Axel Merckx would beat Kristin Armstrong.

As Tony Soprano once said, "Used to be a guy got pinched, he took his prison jolt no matter what. Everybody upheld the code of silence. Nowadays, no values. Guys today have no room for the penal experience. So everybody turns government witness ... I feel exhausted just talking about it."

Cavendish? Cavendouche.

For monsters: Take the stage's distance in kilometers, convert that to miles, then ride that many kilometers. E.g., Stage 1: 224K = 139 miles. Ride 139K (= 86 miles). Do this every day, and by the end of the Tour, you'll have ridden 2237K (=1390 miles) -- roughly 62% of the distance. For...

After my first collarbone-breaking crash, an old-timer said, "Congratulations; you just lost your virginity."

Peet's coffee http://www.peets.com/ is excellent. If you're burned out on burnt Starbucks, you'll enjoy Peet's: they know how to roast. It's all I drink at home and work...

Separated at Birth? I think Wiggo takes his tonsorial cues from The (British) Office's Tim:

I seem to remember Popovych wearing them during the Giro in 2003...

Was it in the '05 Tour that T-Mobile had Vinokourov, Klöden, and Ullrich? I remember Vino attacking and getting chased down by his own guys...

Goldberger, you annoy me Do you read through your posts before you post them?;) First of all, it's "through" not "trough". Shouldn't be so hard to get right. And secondly, is it right to leave "norwegian" and "swedish" uncapitalized? I don't think so. It's not just those two simple...

WTF? Only 9 of 48 posts are ad hominems or just name-calling?! That's well shy of the 33% minimum threshold for personal attacks on discussion boards. Perhaps extra credit should be given for wholesale attacks on academics in general and ethicists in particular? Even so, we're all going to...

Peet's French Roast!

I just finished reading A Terrible Splendor, a terrific account of the 1937 Davis Cup match between Don Budge and Gottfried von Cramm (and all the politics playing out in the background). I'm afraid that the level of sportsmanship today isn't what it used to be! In a crucial Cup doubles match...

Chomsky is "perhaps not far behind Rorty" as a thinker -- you must be joking! Rorty is to Chomsky as Tyler Hamilton is to Eddy Merckx. Chomsky completely revolutionized linguistics; Rorty is a philosopher who's not especially influential in philosophy, though folks in other disciplines --...