In stark contrast to the previous posting, the Freakonomics blog looks at statistical evidence that shows how much more likely you are to be killed as a commuting cyclist, than a motorist.

Bottom Line: Biking may be healthier and less harmful to the environment, but comparatively it still is pretty dangerous.

Make sure you watch the odd 1963 Bike Safety film linked in the posting, which features a scary looking group of bike-riding monkeys.

Amy Lovell and her 10-year-old son Allen arrive with his French horn on bicycles at Glennwood Academy (Washington Post)

Where do AP reporters go when they need a good example of kids walking and biking to school for a story about the Federal “Safe Routes to School” program? Decatur of course!

Washington Post

International Tribune

San Francisco Examiner

I think this “evergreen” AP story has been around for a couple weeks, since I recall seeing it in the local papers a few weeks ago. But now it seems its making the rounds amongst the big boys.

Emory Wheel

David Horowitz had come to Emory to discuss and debate the term “Islamo-fascism” with a room full of students and faculty. A group of mostly non-Emory protesters had other ideas.

From the Emory Wheel…

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Conservative commentator David Horowitz was forced to cut short his speech on “Islamo-Fascism” in the face of repeated interruptions, heckling and catcalls from some audience members in a packed lecture room in White Hall on Wednesday.

The event played out like a tug-of-war between two groups: protesters who shouted questions or anti-conservative tag lines after every few sentences Horowitz spoke and another faction in the audience who became increasingly vocal about their desire to hear him speak uninterrupted.

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It is at best ironic and at worst hypocritical to argue against terminology that implies oppression of speech (among countless other things) by oppressing that voice. Many quotes in the Wheel article agree.

For more on National Islamofascim Awareness Week”: The Huffington Post laughs at the event but welcomes the debate, while Christopher Hitchens makes a case for defense of the term in Slate.

Photo Courtesy of 11 Alive

A stage being set up on Emory’s Clairmont campus for the Fall Band Party concert featuring hip hop and R&B singer Akon, collapsed this afternoon resulting in injuries to three workers (none were students). The much-anticipated concert was subsequently canceled. No word on whether it will be rescheduled.

The AJC does a little internet sleuthing of its own and quotes a favorite Decatur Metro resource, The Emory Wheel.

“After a year and a half of promises, the Student Programming Council has finally convinced a big-name artist to appear on campus,” the school newspaper, The Emory Wheel, said in an editorial last week.

“An invitation to the concert sent out through Facebook Monday night already has more than 1,200 confirmed guests,” it added.