Austin College puts in 61 year old man to kick PAT

Trinity 44, Austin College 10: In Sherman [TX], the Tigers closed their http://seesdifferent.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=trash&post=3561&_wpnonce=5d362e2c96season with a win, while 61-year-old [Austin] Kangaroos place-kicker Tom Thompson kicked an extra point to become the oldest player in college football history.
Why?

Leaf blowers, again

Yesterday, while riding my bike, I saw two people dealing with fall leaves. The first was a middle aged man in Mountain View, blowing madly away at leaves in his driveway, blowing them out into the street with a noisy gasoline-driven blower. I suppose then the neighbors will blow them back the next day.
The [...]

Klamath River dams to be removed in 2020; will there be any salmon left?

Finally somebody is gonna do something about the catastrophic collapse of the salmon fisheries. Of course it won’t happen until 2020. And we still have the issue of how fish farms are affecting the wild population.
SAN FRANCISCO — A draft plan to remove four aging dams along the Klamath River in Oregon and [...]

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 was 109. Coach refuses to apologize. Says he’s interceding with Jesus Christ on behalf [...]

WOMAN KILLS SNAKE; lol wut

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 it’s avoidable. Obesity is a huge problem.
Calling soda the new tobacco, San Francisco [...]

Insurers Spending $700K a Day to Kill Healthcare Reform

and how easily they manipulate the ignorant sheep/teabaggers into making idiots of themselves.
[lifted from Dkos; by mcjoan]

Wow, that could be providing a helluva lot of healthcare.
Washington, D.C. – A campaign finance watchdog’s analysis of insurance and HMO political contributions and lobbying expenses found the industries spent $126,430,438 over the first half [...]

Will CNN stop sponsoring the egregious racist Republican assault on President Obama?

This is the most disgusting display of partisanship and racism in recent American history, and it is being sponsored by our media.
After giving Mark Williams, one of the leaders of the Tea Party movement, weeks of free publicity, CNN finally took the conservative activist to task on Monday, calling him out for describing President [...]

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 trip hammer belt his apron caught in the belt and he was taken up to [...]

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 “Old” was built by silver baron James C. Flood, in 1885, of Connecticut brownstone brought [...]