Now if the one involving the Eagles and the Super Bowl could go too, that would be cool

I guess I've been lucky enough to have more constants in my life than a lot of people in the world, but I've lost two of them in the last 6 months.

I guess after this long, I asumed Fran Brown would be sitting on the facing benches at Meeting and Joe Paterno would be coaching Penn State football pretty much forever.

And in one sense, Fran always will be.

We can probably rule out skis though. They aren't great on ice.

In an article in a recent issue of the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/who-arrived-in-the-americas-first.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120520, they asked the question:

WHEN and how did the first people arrive in the Americas?


And the article says that "We now know people were in the Americas earlier than 14,000 years ago. But how much earlier, and how did they get to a continent sealed off by thick sheets of ice?"

I don't know for sure, but I'm going with really cool, fast sleds.

But it only makes the news if one of them crashes

According to this website: http://flightaware.com/live/fleet.rvt?ident= there are 5,640 planes up in the air around the world right this very moment, and according to wikipedia, a Boeing 737-800 has a maximum takeoff weight of 187,700 lbs.

That comes to a little over 1 billion pounds floating up in the air right now, holding what, at an average of 100 people per plane, half a million or so people?

Half a million people up in the air...right now...in a billion pounds of metal.

Just something I was wondered about driving home from work the other day.

Neither Prince Humperdinck nor Princess Buttercup could be reached for comment

News Item:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Albuquerque hot dog vendor faces a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after police say he rammed his food cart into a competitor.



Police say Eric Kilmer used his hot dog cart to run over the legs and feet of rival Vincent Montoya. Other vendors told KOB-TV that Montoya is seeking a restraining order against Kilmer, further stating "Hello, my name is Vincent Montoya. You ran over my feet. Prepare to die."

But only if it's by my definition

People on both sides of the issues keep telling us we just need to rely on Common Sense, which presumably is according to their definition and is what generally has gotten us into the disagreements we have today.

What I think we need is some uncommon sense.

I mean, well, except for this blog...and my fantasy baseball team...and this paddle game

It struck me over the weekend that not only isn't it all about me, it has absolutely nothing to do with me, and everything to do with every single other person whose life I have a chance to touch.

And if everyone liked us, then it would probably only be because we had just died a few days ago

I wonder why so many of us spend so much of our lives trying to be the first person in the history of the world to be liked by every single person we've ever met.

The same can be said to an even greater extent about our opinions. It seems to confound so many of us that anyone could possibly not see things as clearly as we do on any particular subject, particularly when it comes to politics, but also sports or taste in food or art or music.

And then, having been psychologically scorched by someone not liking either us or our opinion, we go right out and try to start all over, figuring everyone else except maybe that one person on that one issue will surely like us or agree with us on everything, once we've had a chance to prove to them how wonderful we and our treasured opinions are, and then getting upset all over again when it turns out one MORE person doesn't agree with us.

Remember, if everyone agreed with our opinion, it wouldn't be an opinion, it would be a fact.