Rational and radical in the world's greatest city
Ron Sen gives his take on the Francona exit.
I don’t feel bad for Terry Francona. I feel relieved for him. Francona helped to deliver a pair of championships to Boston fans, and he treated athletes like men, like professionals, and got stabbed in the back by them. I’m happy that he can leave the asylum on the ‘task oriented’ (hard guys) and ‘player-oriented’ roller coaster.
Read the whole thing.
Terry Francona and the Sox have parted ways. Francona was an integral part of changing the fans psyche, along with guiding the team on the field to two World Series championships.
Good luck, wherever you end up next season.
The incredible story of the DC National Guard’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks as told to the Washington Post by fighter pilot Heather Penney.
The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft.
Except her own plane. So that was the plan.
Because the surprise attacks were unfolding, in that innocent age, faster than they could arm war planes, Penney and her commanding officer went up to fly their jets straight into a Boeing 757.
“We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day. “I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.”
To view her interview on C-SPAN click the link below:
The Chippies were stealing bird food by climbing up the pole and jumping on to the feeder. I fixed them by spaying PAM on the pole. 
Bonus: Watch the rabbit run through the background at about :11 seconds.
August 13, 1968 is the actual, recognized date of the beginning of Tower Of Power. That was the date of Doc’s first gig with the band.
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