Cycling Diary

Charles JohnsonFollow @Green_Footballs

1/10/04 4:08:35 pm • Views: 348

All right now! Did 54 miles on the carbon fiber torture device today; rode down into Palos Verdes and had lunch at the light house park just south of Hawthorne Boulevard. And then I come back and there’s a morally blinkered ISM tool babbling about “Zionazis” all over the place in our comments, like a wind-up Chatty Ahmed doll. Begone, Morlock!

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