And This Is the Way It Should Be

If a touchdown is scored on the very last play of an NFL game and the winner of the game has already been determined, there should be no extra point attempt.  It’s silly to force a team to play after they’ve already lost.

The right turn lanes from Highway 36 onto Century should immediately be extended at least 200 yards.  Many people turning right during the rush hours drive on the shoulder prior to the official start of the turn lane.  People who wait until the official turn lane to move right are often nearly hit by cars already driving on the shoulder.  A longer turn lane would minimize the danger to people who, correctly, don’t move right until a turn lane is marked.  All it would take to correct this is a few buckets of white paint.

If a road or lane is closed for construction, someone should actually be constructing.  Nothing is more frustrating that sitting in a fifteen minute traffic jam so that two lanes can merge into one to go around a lane closure. Then, when you finally get up to the cones, you see that the only work that’s been done is to set up the cones. After that, the entire crew apparently took a three day vacation.

NFL’s instant replay has got to go. I want to go back to the days when the referee called a touchdown and I could cheer with all my heart.  Now when something good happens, I don’t know if it really happened until five minutes and seven commercials later when the replay official tells me whether it really happened.  After each touchdown there are now typically two cheers - one when the touchdown is called on the field and one when the replay official confirms it.  That’s not double the excitement.  That’s a drag.

“Greens” should quit advocating for curly light bulbs.  First of all, the light isn’t just as good as traditional light bulbs.  Second, and much more importantly, a lot of these new bulbs end up in the regular garbage.  The EPA says that in this country alone, more than a billion curly light bulbs are thrown in the garbage every year. At some point these bulbs get broken. Each curly bulb contains enough mercury to contaminate 6000 gallons of drinking water.  We’re better off using more energy on regular light bulbs than putting all that mercury into the environment.

And that’s the way it should be, September 26, 2012.