the Atlanta Journal Constitution has an article (registration required; temporary free link here) about how the Dekalb County Homeland Security department (formed in the wake of 9/11, natch) has been targetting those most wiley of domestic terrorists: vegans!

Where are all the conservatives who say that big government isn't the answer? i suppose now that they are no longer worried about Eric Rudolph, they feel they can go after the really big terrorists.

The Bicycle Film Festival is showing this Thursday through Sunday at the Anthology Film Archives. It looks like a lot of fun, actually, as part of the city's Bike Month. Most politically interesting, perhaps, is the "bike parade" scheduled at 1pm on Saturday, starting in Madison Square park. We'll see what happens, i suppose.

Not surprisingly, most of the promotional materials about bike month seem to include critical mass on 27 May (the last friday of the month, as usual).

So the NYC Critical mass was extremely weakly covered today by the New York Times. Hopefully there will be a bigger writeup soon, given that the last paragraph of the article states:

Soon after the ride began, a freelance reporter for The New York Times, Colin Moynihan, was standing on a sidewalk at Sixth Street and Avenue A interviewing people when he was briefly detained and handcuffed. He was later released by the police without charges.

i had a run-in with the police myself, which fortunately ended OK for me. The numbers i heard for the arrest were more on the order of 30-40, not the 18 mentioned in the article.