After Rivera, who's next for the Grand Farewell? - Baseball Nation

Sue and I were talking about this the other day, about Mariano's farewell being rather unusual. But in a good way...


After Rivera, who's next for the Grand Farewell? - Baseball Nation: What sort of player gets the Grand Farewell? And what does a Grand Farewell look like?

Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies - NYTimes.com

I probably won't see the movie, as I don't have much time to watch movies that aren't animated and good for five-year-olds, but this is an interesting point:

Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies - NYTimes.com: Unfortunately, with all this verisimilitude, there is a hole in the plot: a gaping orbital impossibility big enough to drive the Starship Enterprise through.

Taking the ‘free’ out of free school meals | Rob Lyons | spiked

Our school's kitchen has been out of commission since the beginning of the year (the short story is that it doesn't meet federal guidelines), so the kids all have had to brown bag it. Seems to be working just fine...

Taking the ‘free’ out of free school meals | Rob Lyons | spiked: Implicitly, the suggestion is that leaving lunch up to parents is just too damn risky.

Vanity Project: Why Fancy Architecture Won’t Save Penn Station | The New York Observer

Vanity Project: Why Fancy Architecture Won’t Save Penn Station | The New York Observer: BEHIND the multibillion dollar plans lie a shaky fiscal reality and a bureaucratic morass of railroads and political interests that don’t seem to be up to the task of creating a 21st-century railroad station.

Jeep Plunges Off Parkway in Forest Hills – Vehicle lands on roof, driver, passenger walk away with minor injuries | The Forum Newsgroup

Yikes, I'm at this intersection all the time!

Jeep Plunges Off Parkway in Forest Hills – Vehicle lands on roof, driver, passenger walk away with minor injuries | The Forum Newsgroup: Motorists traveling on the Jackie Robinson parkway on Saturday morning shortly before noon, say what happened there was nothing less than a miracle, after an out of control Jeep plunged through the rail and fencing of an overpass, landing on the busy roadway below.

Overthinking the New Fall TV Lineup: Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Overthinking It

Overthinking the New Fall TV Lineup: Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Overthinking It: Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of the most promising new shows to roll out this fall, and one aspect of it in particular seems worth mulling over.