Why I didn't post the commentary I wanted to.

I was all set to post my opinion about certain recent events, but I decided against it. Why? Because I'm a paranoid motherfucker. The way certain things are these days, the last thing I want to do is start posting stuff with keywords that might alert some sort of government search engine. I mean, for the last five and a half years, our civil liberties have been eroded. I'm sure I'm already on some sort of list after getting busted at the 2004 Republican Convention, the last thing I need is to get on some sort of other list, get cross referenced, and the next thing you know there's a black van following me around. I mean, I live in upstate NY. My nearest neighbor is nearly a quarter mile away. If I see a carpet cleaning van parked across the street, it's going to look suspicious. And since out here in the sticks we only have dial-up, people can't download porn at the speed of light so they will end up talking about the van in front of my house. And they will figure out I'm being watched by some government agency, and talk about what I must be doing. I was always a bit of a renegade growing up, will they think I'm some sort of radical?

Anyway, I had some really good things to post, stuff that would make people think and discuss stuff. But the FBI's version of Google might flag me as someone suspicious. And really, I don't need that kind of aggrivation right now. The running aspect of this triathlon is aggrivation enough. Hasn't the triathlon world figured out that if you own a bike worth $7000, running is really stupid? I mean, even a mediocre cyclist can do 26 miles in 2 and a half hours, a time that all but the most elite runners would kill for. Did it ever occur to them that if they would just stay on the bike for the run phase they would get to the finish so much faster?