Who Reads Yesterday's Papers?

-Now that he's impeached the President, Chris Daly is now single-handedly trying to end the war in Iraq by sponsoring a resolution in front of the Board of Supes to, well, end the war in Iraq. Actually, the measure merely calls Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Tom Lantos to join in sponsoring a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for an end to the war and urging DiFI and Babs Boxer to start up a similar resolution in the Senate. The measure was scuttled by Sup. Sean Elsbernd and Michela Alioto-Pier who probably secretly watch Fox News and vote Republican. We've snarked on these kind of measures in the past but have no problem with this one as hopefully it'll bring us one step closer to the Daly/O'Reilly Death Match that we all know is inevitable. We’ll take Daly.

-With the refurbished Bay Bridge scheduled to be finished sometime this century, another opposition to it has been registered, this time over the size of the railings and the possibility that we're building another bridge that makes suicide easy. Because of calls by biking and pedestrian activists, a walkway was added to the bridge, one with railings 4 feet, 7 inches tall. That makes it difficult for somebody to jump, but not that difficult if they really wanted to. Currently, no numbers are really kept on how many people jump off the Bay Bridge but it's considered to be much less than the Golden Gate Bridge. Reasons include the difficulty of doing it from the Bay Bridge as well as the non-Romantic aspect of doing it from the redheaded stepchild of Bay Area Bridges. Concerns are that with a possible suicide barrier put on the Golden Gate Bridge and the walkway being added to the Bay Bridge, it'll make more people go jump off the Bay Bridge.