I don't think of the NFL as a progressive or forward-looking organization (for good reason, see Kaepernick, shithead billionaire owners, jet flyovers), but the last two Super Bowl halftime shows, especially the way they have handled comms about conservative pushback, suggest the org is evolving.

Just what the world needs—another Lance biopic. And this one is special because LA sold his life rights for the project, meaning he'll actually make money on (and potentially influence) this slop. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Incredible cinematography, set design, energy to this set.

Update: Did LXIV.IX miles and it was glorious.

Goal this morning is to ride LX miles.

One thing that is on my mind this morning: There is a dangerous counterfactual attack on e-bikes all across the US right now and there are no bike companies or bike orgs pushing back with clear storytelling to combat it. A multi-billion dollar industry without a clear comms strategy.

Imagine being worth a quarter of a trillion dollars as an individual and destroying a newspaper's sports coverage with some total bullshit about financial imperatives and AI. How do you sleep at night if you are that soulless?

When I was a kid, I liked to play Monopoly and definitely took note of how the endgame was when the one or two people who had been lucky and amassed all the wealth and property had to destroy everyone else to win. I did not realize as a kid how the game would resemble real life.

Second straight weekend where my entire plan is to ride my bike until my mind and body are empty.

Imagining what it's like to be someone who finally realizes that the Trump/MAGA position on basically EVERYTHING is evil or a self-serving lie but they still hold on to the notion that trans people are a genuine threat to our culture and deserve persecution.

I honestly had thought that pedophilia was a rare disorder and not something that an entire class of rich people liked to pursue and email each other about it from work accounts.

Orange Crush

It's pretty damn fun to win a world championship in front of a crowd that is fully behind you.

This nightmare isn't over until the perpetrators face consequences.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

This BS is a cornerstone of modern conservatism. The problem is that peaceful protesters exist. The problem is that trans people exist. The problem is that too many people of color exist. The problem is that folks with ideologies we don't like have guns. And therefore these folks deserve persecution

Most people I know are attuned to the problems of fake AI slop. But in the same vein, I find all the obviously staged IG and TikTok content to be equally annoying. Staged charity, staged surprises, staged meetings. People don't like being treated like idiots.

Springsteen releases new song: "Streets of Minneapolis": Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst... We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis

I think the massive pushback to ICE overreach in Minnesota, Maine, Chicago, LA, and DC—while MAGA folks cry about whistles, legal gun carries, filming ICE, peaceful protests—adds new texture to just how silly the cliche of liberal snowflakes is.

Good to know that 25 years of gun rights discourse was total bullshit.

Took time out from doomscrolling to indulge the melancholy of 2026. I love this song; it's expressing emotional pain in such a beautiful way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWUW...

After reading news for an hour this morning, I've decided I need to go riding soonish and go long and hard enough so my brain is disabled for the rest of the day.

How about a cross race format where they give the whole field a 1-minute head start before MVDP gets to ride?

What kind of weirdo wants to go jet skiing in England in January?

Very minor in current apocalypse, but I find it so telling that people (and lawmakers) increasingly refuse to acknowledge that e-bikes and electric motorcycles are different things.

I just learned last night that I've misinterpreted the meaning of "bemused" my whole life. I thought it meant "wryly amused" but damn I was wrong.

One thing I'd like to see more discourse on—how can something be a war crime if we're not at war? Isn't that just regular crime?

Sliver of light in dark times.

Folks, I have been waiting A LONG TIME to make this announcement: 📣 I have a new book! 📣 It's called "The Running Dictionary," and it's a fun little read. Publication date is April 14, but you can (and should!) pre-order your copy right now!

Have you noticed that every AI commercial promise a benefit that is as dumb as shit? The whole premise of the marketing is like, you are not capable of doing normal things that people have done for decades but we're here to help you.

First instance in my lifetime that a certain demographic in America is passionate about the implications of unpredictable or aggressive driving.

There are a lot of good people on this platform who never took the time to read Project 2025. I read hundreds of posts a day from people who want the horrible news of the day to be about one or two things. But the plan all along was to flood the zone, to a 1000 shitty things for 100 shitty reasons.

Today is a perfect example of how I can't get my head around doing bike advocacy right now.

I still get news alerts for tons of fatal bike crashes and on a daily basis I am assaulted by the bias and stupidity of police investigators and a profound like of cognition by media that parrot their findings. Look at the way everyone/everything but the driver is responsible.

I rented a car last weekend and they auto-upgraded me to a giant SUV so I went back to the desk and wound up with a nice Hyundai hybrid that had zero blind spots and a very big trunk and averaged almost 50mpg and was quite comfy (and had an MSRP less than half the SUV).

IMO this kind of kooky discourse should be ridiculed or better yet ignored. Many folks who drive have no clue how they've benefitted from decades and trillions in subsidies and preferential treatment and act like their human rights have been violated if any effort is made to address the fallout.

This is the best time of year to live in California and wake up for no reason at 4:45 because almost every day there is world-class cyclocross streaming at that hour.

One thing I find fascinating 25 years later—that Lance, despite his sociopathic tendencies, was always good at reading people and he knew on a deep level that Sally Jenkins would happily be the stenographer of his lies and even defend him for decades as long as the checks cleared.

Sally is the very rare broken clock that still isn't right once or twice a day.

No gifts for Wout

The spiked 60 Minutes segment is so obviously well reported and fact checked. I don't see how Bari Weiss can survive or even justify her decision, though I guess that rarely matters in 2025. In any case, worth watching to see how pathetic the administration and CBS have become.

I have a love-hate relationship with all those IG and TikTok posts where someone surprises a nice, deserving, needy person with a bunch of money. They always make me cry a bit and I love that someone’s life is being changed for the better. But…

It's always good to note that while basically everything about the economy that impacts 95% of the country is shitty, the stock markets continue to rise, and the wealthiest people and biggest companies continue to profit and thus don't understand the pain everyone is feeling.

What do you expect from the person who took 18 months to write Lance Armstrong's intentionally full-of-shit hagiographic memoir and then never commented that his entire myth was a lie because she made a bunch of money?

Very thoroughly reported story on why Florida is arguably the most dangerous state for bike riders. (One telling factoid: Only 124 citations for drivers violating the state's 3-foot law in 2024.) www.cltampa.com/news/florida...

You know, I bet Lance Armstrong would be super good at boxing.

This basically sums up my feelings about last night.

I haven't really been a fan boxing or other fighting in a pretty long time, but I did enjoy watching the clip of Jake Paul getting dropped five times.

This story—from Lancaster PA—is yet another scary reminder that the police and media can't be trusted to think logically when riders are hit and badly injured by negligent drivers. Warning: Don't play the video in the story if you will be triggered seeing a crash. www.wgal.com/article/penn...