What might you expect to see on a 25-mile roundtrip bicycle ride on the Legacy trail between Farmington and North Salt Lake? Here’s a checklist, compiled from my Nov. 11 outing.

Horses. It’s quite an equestrian area. Much of the trail borders horse pastures. Urban civilization’s finally intruded into this vestige of 19th century rural Davis County.

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Organizations are “crazy” if they inhibit the use of social media in the workplace, says David Bradford. The CEO of Fusion-io should know, because he sometimes spends a couple of hours a day on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and realizes how it benefits himself and his company. He’s been engaged in online networking since the first days of the Internet in the 1990s.

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The Standard-Examiner took home hardware from the first annual Utah Social Media Awards. The newspaper won the “Best Integrated Social Media Campaign” trophy in recognition of broad efforts in the exploding realm of online targeted communication.

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I’m well-conditioned to expect occasion thuggery in college and pro sports. Forty years of watching football, basketball, soccer, baseball and hockey has shown me plenty of horrid examples.

What I never expected to see? Over-the-top vicious shots in a MountainWest Conference women’s soccer game. This video shows at least one player who might need some anger management classes.

Fire them all.

Utah officials crow often about awards recognizing the state as one of the best-managed government entities in the world. Well, with the smooth bonus deal pulled off by the guys who run the state school trust lands investment agency, it’s time to prove that “best managed” boasting.

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With our economy in the drunk tank, it can be aggravating to ponder the seemingly incessant calls for more money to pay for “government things.”

I’m glad I’m not a Davis County voter faced with the latest significant local tax question: Whether to pass a $250 million bond to pay for more schools. Enrollment growth is inexorable in the exploding suburbia of Davis, adding 1,000 more students each year for as far as we can see.

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My eyebrows need rest. They’ve been jumping up and down all week while flipping the pages of the Standard-Examiner and cruising through StandardNET. Human nature’s been in maximum flourish lately. I think the moon was full a week or so ago, could that be it?

“Sexual abuse” and “labor and delivery” rarely appear in the same news story, but they did after a man allegedly twice groped a nurse — as his wife was being wheeled into an Ogden hospital to give birth. He’s just drunk, the unfortunate mother-to-be explained. Criminal charges are in process.

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The Daily Show had a great bit savaging CNN for “leaving it there.”

The piece illuminates the sometimes shallow news interviews and CNN’s seeming inability to pin down crucial facts on topics such as health care. Of course, Stewart’s indictment of CNN can be extended to apply to any news organizations and individual journalists who miss opportunities to ask important questions.

Stewart as usual is funny and entertaining and delivers a sting.