Enough NFL

I really don't care if these overpaid primadonna football stars and fat cat owners play another down ever.

I think it would be only justice to see the NFL fritter away its anti-trust exemption through greed, call a lock-out, then get their Armani pants sued off. When the lock-out ends by court order, the players strike. In a desperate bid to pay the escalating mortgage on his new stadium, Jerry Jones starts a new league merging football with professional wrestling. Sidelines are replaced by ring ropes and helmets are eliminated as a concession to the WWF crowd, who want to see their heroes emote and bleed. Game scores exceed first basketball, then cricket tallies. Games are so obviously scripted that only trash sports cable TV carries the games. Even the bookies abandon the new sport, and attendance sags except for the mullet crowd. Jerry Jones is bankrupt and in prison within two years, and turns his attention toward getting a TV contract for a prison league. His memorial stadium becomes permanent host to the Fort Worth Farmers Market. Meanwhile with the elimination of the offsides penalty and full contact and tackling allowed, soccer finally starts to catch on as the national sport.

At the request of friends and neighbors, I am reluctantly placing my name on the ballot for Township Supervisor. I think the Township Board of Supervisors needs some help.

As a reluctant candidate, I hope and expect somebody better will win, and I will help them win, and congratulate them on their victory, and thank providence they won. I am probably just Plan B for the Democrats. If the preferred candidate wins the lottery or wimps out on us, I'll step into the hole. In our Township, the odds are really against any Democrat, since voter registration runs almost 2-1 Republican; but there may be barely enough independents and potential cross-over votes to at least make it possible to eke out a win, depending on how many Republicans actually vote. If they turn out in force, we will probably see only Republicans elected. Whatever happens, the show will go on.

Plastic or Paper or None of the Above ?

Now here's a good idea.

Telluride Daily Planet > Archives > News > Bag ban goes into effect Tuesday

Plastic bags are made from polyethylene, which is derived mostly from oil and natural gas, and although some bags are recycled, most of them end up in landfills. In our household, we tend to accumulate these plastic grocery bags, and sometimes recycle them by taking them back to the grocery store. We sometimes use them as trash bags (to the landfill), and sometimes just throw them away (landfill again) . It would be useful if our local trash pickup allowed us to recycle plastic bags. Even though we have enough reusable cloth bags, we seem to frequently forget them. If plastic was not an option, or if we had to pay extra for plastic bags, then we would have more incentive to break this convenient habit.