Meh. Somewhere on the hill on Stanton Avenue, there is something that causes flat bicycle tyres. At least once a month, I get to the bottom of the hill, cross over Negley Avenue and discover my rear tyre is losing air. At least this month, I got it out of the way early. So, I thought maybe, just maybe, I had a spare tube at home, and I could still enjoy the fine weather. No such luck. I had one tube, but it was for the cyclocross bike, and therefore just a bit too wide. Needless to say, today during lunch I’m going to stroll down to the LBS and get a frame-type pump and a handful of tubes. Yeesh.

And by the way, if you’re a commuter in Pittsburgh, please check out this site:

Bike Pittsburgh. I met the guy who runs the organization last night on my ride home.

In other news…

Rush Limbaugh’s tenure on ESPN’s Sunday Countdown is over thanks to his comments about Donovan McNabb and the “liberal media.” Well, it took four weeks, but Rush did manage to be controversial. Personally, I think I’m more knowledgable about football than good ol’ Rush, and could probably provide more insight on that show (I do not, however, have the suit collection to match Michael Irvin, Tom Jackson, and Steve Young) than he did. Perhaps Rush’s comments about McNabb were in fact racist, but his conclusions were so, well, stupid, that the discussion doesn’t even have to go that far. Why would the media care about what Donovan McNabb is doing? And if they care so much about McNabb, what about Kordell Stewart? No one comes rushing (heh) to his defense because he’s black. Heck, the media has no problem saying that Stewart is a plain old bad quarterback.

McNabb may not be same type of quarterback as someone like Peyton Manning (a precise passer), but everyone on the Philadelphia Eagles (did you hear that, Howard Dean? The Philadelphia Eagles) believes that McNabb’s athleticism and leadership more than make up for up.

Of course, I’d to like to ask Limbaugh why he took the job in the first place. Wasn’t he going to work for the same “liberal media” he frequently derails. I mean, ESPN is owned by ABC, right? I bet some of the very same people sitting next to Limbaugh on the show thought that McNabb was an MVP quality quarterback (and McNabb was spot-on when he asked why Limbaugh’s fellow panelists didn’t call Rush on his stupidity).

Posted on 2 October 2003