fer de lance, as of july 22nd

well first thing's first, armstrong takes his seventh and self-proclaimed final tour de france. is there anything that's beyond this guy? armstrong, buttstrong, headstrong... dickstrong? er, excuse me. anyway, go lance!

before i go get some work done, i wanted to bitch for a moment about the newest subway announcement, which goes like this: "as of july 22nd, police are authorised to conduct random searches on your backpacks and other large bags..." while i appreciate that someone up there wants to make sure no one's carrying a bomb, i am pretty sure that wouldn't stop them from arresting those among us who might happen to be transporting the kind of things one might put in a bong.

ugh.