The Morning News - Would You Like Havarti With Those Freedom Fries?, by Choire Sicha The Morning News - Would You Like Havarti With Those Freedom Fries?, by Choire Sicha

Any analysis of the Muhammad cartoon flap that includes the phrase, "screw you, New Pope!" amuses me. It boggles the mind that this whole hoo-haw started because a childrens' book writer was having trouble finding an illustrator. See, the book was about Muhammad, and according to some sects of Islam, any representation of the Prophet is Idolatry. Of couse, there is a long history of pictures of Muhammad in Islam texts for at least the last thousand years, but we won't talk about that.  ¶ 16:03 0 comments

  Tires On Saturday I met up with Sheldon Lemoine up in BC and got some used tires from him. He took third place in class at the Solo 2 Nationals last year and these were used up for his purposes, but I can get at least one or two events out of them. All four are for the rear, so I had ordered four new fronts. So yesterday I spent a few hours taking wheels apart, cleaning up things and mounting tires. When getting ready to put together some new wheel halves, I noticed that there was no hole for the stem, so I have to drill holes in some wheel halves today. It'll be nice to get off the hockey pucks the old Goodyears have turned into and get some real traction.

Sheldon also agreed to come drew for me at the April 1 school at PIR and the Regional the day after. One less thing to worry about.  ¶ 11:35 0 comments