If there is any lesson to be learned here, it is surely that you should add one small item to your existing, effective list of things to do before you cross the street. Check both ways for Officer Bob.

Duly noted.

Baseball players, particularly pitchers: they also tend to sport the mustache.

And surely you've seen:

http://www.blogjam.com/despot_or_sexpot/

(Best with sound.)

I dunno, I always thought it was because they thought it made them look like Charles Bronson.

And, based on my rough estimate of approximately ten tickets per minute being written up during each morning/evening rush-hour on 3rd, I'd have to say the entire thing is simply a very clever revenue-enhancement scheme concocted by someone at City Hall.

Now, if we could just figure out a way to transfer all that $$ to the monorail, we could build a line from Vancouver to Portland by, oh 2009...

that SUCKS.