Happy Andrew Rich Day!!!!

Alleged naked doorbell ringer pleads not guilty:

A San Francisco man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he rang doorbells while naked and fled from San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies while wearing only tennis shoes. Peter Allen Steele, 38, entered the pleas Tuesday in San Mateo County Superior Court. He is being held in lieu of $60,000 bail. At least two residents in the Woodside and Portola Valley area reported seeing Steele standing naked outside their homes July 11 after he rang their doorbells, said Steve Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney.

From a post on a message board which itself was poached from
somebody’s Facebook:

This morning I woke to my alarm clock, powered by
electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US
Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided
by the local water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to an FCC-
regulated channel to see what the National Weather Service and
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather
will be, using satellites designed, built, and launched into orbit by
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this
while eating my breakfast, which has been inspected for safety by the
US Department of Agriculture and took my medicine, which has been
approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the US Congress and kept
accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the
US Naval Observatory, I got into my National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration-certified and -approved automobile, and set out to work
on the roads designed and built by the local, state, and national
Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase fuel at a
quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, at a
pump certified by the local Bureau of Weights and Measures to have
dispensed what it says it did, using legal tender issued by the
Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door, I drop my mail in the
outbox for the US Postal Service, which can deliver a note anywhere in
the country in less than a week, and drop my kids off at the local
public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to a
house which has not burned down in my absence because of state and
local building codes and a fire marshal’s inspection, and which has
not been vandalized or plundered of its valuables thanks to the local
police department.

I then log onto the Internet, which was developed by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, and carp on freerepublic.com about
how ‘socialism’ is bad because the government can’t do anything
right.

Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA!

We are going to see the San Francisco Giants play (and hopefully beat) the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight, August 11, 2009. I expect we'll have a great time, whether or not San Francisco wins–though of course a win would make it all the better.