10-mile social ride on the Minuteman with Ellen, street clothes and an easy spin. The Burma Shave signs are back in Lexington, admonishing us to socially responsible behavior. If Jonathan Edwards (the Great Awakening preacher, not the rock singer) rode a bicycle and wrote copy for Burma Shave, the results might be something like this: cyclists in the hands of an Angry (or, at least, mildly peeved) God. Last year, the framing joke was novel enough to be funny; this year, it's just didactic.
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