I see in the local paper people wanting to require trucks to put side guards on trucks to prevent the truck from running over a bicylist when the truck takes a right turn.

How about also requiring bicylists to have training to avoid trying to pass a truck on the right when it's turning right?

In other words, the bicyclist needs to exercise some common sense instead of assuming everyone must avoid them no matter what stupid stunt they try to pull.

(and don't get me started about pedestrians that just walk into the street as if they have some magic force field around them)

In the Boston-area news today is a story about the sweet sweet SWEET deal the union has with the MBTA.

A maintenance worker, whose salary is about $85,000,  made $315,000 last year by working 2648 hours of overtime, (not 2000 straight hours and 648 OT, but 2648 hours of OT!)

It goes like this, a union worker calls in sick one day and later in the week works "overtime" at the OT rate even though he doesn't even work 40 hours for the week.  In other words, the union worker doesn't have to work 40 hours in the week before he can get OT pay.

The MBTA is a part of the Taxachusetts state government and thus funded by taxpayers. 

In the meantime, 1" of snow last week caused a few of the MBTA buses to get stuck - real prepared for winter .... but make sure the union is pampered.

Associated Press is reporting that some emails have been "retroactively classified"

what that really means is that the emails were not correctly marked classified but actually contained classified information.

But I'm sure the clinton buttkissers won't care and will continue to deny that clinton broke the law.