And Whitey's on the Moon!

Some of you reading this may have been participating in all of the Christopher Columbus Day festivities earlier this week. Yours truly was most definitely not, though I have nothing personal against Topher Columbo. You see, in Berkeley, California, there is no Colombus Day. Instead, the federal holiday is known as Native People's Day.

Berkeley is all about stopping the White Man's oppression. So what other forms does White Man's oppression take? Well, Whitey always wants to put North as up on his maps. Berkeley freed us from that tyranny by putting East on the up and up.

As long as we're on the subject of dumb things, could somebody tell me why UC Berkeley's engineering building only has two elevators and no stairs on the ground floor. The elevators are always packed and you are lucky to get in the third trip round. You could always walk up around the hill to the backside of the building and enter at the second floor. Gosh, these people are engineers, you'd think they could design things a little better than that.

Today's blog entry is dedicated to the ornery memory of Andy Rooney (1919-2005)