“Where hacks come to spew nonsense” - B2B
KARE-11 wants their viewers to send in amazing weather photos. Tonight would probably yield some good photos but it appears that the weather is going to pass us by.
So, instead, here is an amazing photo of a freezer door full of breast milk.
Keep an eye peeled just in case KARE-11 runs this amazing photo!
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The final RADIUS event for September 8 2007 has been finalized. Due to popular demand I am making this final event the two person team race for Cat 1/2/3 that was rained out in August.
Cat 1/2/3’s – find yourself a team mate and come on out! There is no Madison, you need no special pre-qualification to race as a two person team. Just find someone to race with and bring them out!
Cat 4/5’s will race as individuals.
Women may race as team mates if at least 6 women show up to race and there are an even number of riders.
Don’t forget the supaphat prize list of $35 for each field! You guys would be fools to miss this race!
Last Thursday night I overheard some dudes at the track running down the Track Rider of the Year (TROY) classification. I made a point to tell these guys that it wasn’t right of them.
Super-Rookie and the others involved in TROY have put in a lot of work this year to create this points series and I think we need to respect their work by not bad mouthing TROY. It’s a great series.
The bad mouthing should be withheld for the actual winner of TROY, who should be viciously savaged by all as soon as victory is confirmed.
As promised, here is my valuable opinion.
As opposed to those who think it is some kind of depraved desire to blood and guts, I think it is quite natural to want to see for yourself when “something big” happens. Look at the turn out when a building is demolished. People just want to see big changes for themselves. They want to capture the event in their own memory. There is nothing sick or twisted about it.
Sure, there is a minority that wants to see all the gore, but I think most of the people that came out to see the bridge collapse just wanted to see the missing bridge itself. That bridge was used regularly by hundreds of thousands of people every day and every one of those people, like me, thought about what they would do if they were on that bridge when it went down. Seeing for themselves is just a natural step in understanding the event.
Having said that, I would have controlled access to the site in exactly the same way that the police did. Giving people access to the Stone Arch Bridge and the Cedar Avenue Bridges in the days following the collapse would have most likely created massive crowd control issues in some fairly small and confined areas. In order to provide security and assure the safety of those crowds the police would have needed to patrol those areas heavily and this would have taken away from the rescue and recovery effort. So, while it may appear to be overly authoritarian to some, I think it was a logical issue of resource allocation.
