Three things

     After watching Penn State lose to Ohio University and Pitt lose to Youngstown State during the opening weekend of college football, one has to wonder; is Temple the best college football program in Pennsylvania?

     I watched bits and pieces of the Republican National Convention, and for the life of me, I can’t understand why Clint Eastwood was ever allowed to speak.  I have heard time and again about how the likes of Sean Penn and Rosie O’Donnell are stupid, or just Hollywood liberals who are out of touch with mainstream America.  After watching the Eastwood performance Thursday night, I would argue that the Hollywood stupidity affliction would seem to run in both parties.

     Port Authority CEO Steve Bland is a finalist for the Executive Directorship of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority in Jacksonville, Florida.  Are transit directorships like professional sports coaches, where the same names get recycled ad nauseum , despite track records of limited success?  Unless Jacksonville is looking for a way to eliminate public transportation altogether, I fail to see how Bland’s record of service cuts and fare hikes  in Pittsburgh would qualify him to be the dog catcher in Jacksonville, let alone run the Jacksonville Transportation Authority.