Monthly Archives: September 2009
Kentucky football coach “not guilty” of practice-related death of 15 year old.
Although the coach was acquitted, his case finally sends a real message to those die hard coaches who think football practice in hot weather is some kind of opportunity to speed up the process of natural selection. The boy’s temperature … Continue reading
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SF Mayor Newsom moves to tax soda
I don’t think I’ve had more than two or three sodas since I suffered through a kidney stone a couple years back. And since I lost 40 pounds. I approve of Newsom’s initiative. It’s just a tax, not prohibition, and … Continue reading
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FATAL FOUNDRY ACCIDENT
Brooklyn Union Argus, Jan. 15, 1878, p.1 John MEEHAN, nineteen years of age, of 183 North First street, was instantly killed this morning at Merrill’s blacksmith shop and foundry, South Eleventh and First streets. While on a stepladder shifting a … Continue reading
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San Francisco’s Two Flood Mansions (and another in Atherton)
Went to a wedding this weekend, at the Flood Mansion, 2222 Broadway, in Pacific Heights. But there is also an “old” Flood Mansion, on Nob Hill, at 1000 California.This “old” Flood Mansion is now occupied by the Pacific Union Club.The … Continue reading
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The Bush years: an economic disaster
The very rich got richer and the rest of us paid for it. Classic Republican success. Thursday’s annual Census Bureau report on income, poverty and access to health care-the Bureau’s principal report card on the well-being of average Americans-closes the … Continue reading
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