ROAD-RASH WARRIOR: The Independent‘s executive editor and intrepid Angry Poodle columnist Nick Welsh is an avid bicycle commuter and two-wheel advocate, but met face-first with the downside of his preferred mode on New Year’s Day, when a stick jammed his front wheel and sent him flying into the pavement. “I celebrated New Year’s Day violently re-educating myself on how it takes a village to raise an idiot,” Welsh writes in this week’s poodle about the ordeal, which left him in a neck brace, with stitches and loose teeth, ” The idiot, of course, was me.” Read the rest here.