Tonight Rich blew off Sharing God's Bounty so we could go with the History Society on a tour of the Railyard. The Railway Museum owns the old shop buildings and is starting work on a Railroad Technology museum. They are using the boiler building to fix up some of the rolling stock that's in the current museum, and the erecting building to store some of the stuff away from the homeless and the vandals. We saw the new transfer table that they made. The oldest walls are from a building that was built in 1868 and later burnt out, and the erecting building has 1869 parts and then the modern part was built in 1905. It's going to be nice to have another museum here.

I have no idea why the City (in its usual wisdom) is moving the old depot instead of using it where it is, with a short walk or a moving walkway to the replaced train tracks, but maybe they just get off on moving buildings. (Remember, Sacramento is the only place with a Youth Hostel that comes to the customers! I will say that the addition to City Hall looks nice... I pictured an ugly box overshadowing the original building.) They are going to mess up the railyard redevelopment, and the Museum has to wait till that's coming along before they can complete their addition, that and the Big Bucks.

I'd like to see the other 200 acres used for the Zoo. That'll never happen, with prime downtown real estate, and then the current Zoo location would just revert to parkland, but I can dream. Meanwhile, Herronor and the City Councilidiots are trying to ram through a downtown arena. Again, put something expensive in (the downtown plaza, which is quite nice) and then tear it out at great expense to put something else expensive in. They want to "revitalize K street." Here's a clue. The Thursday night markets worked, but they were shut down because of one stabbing. The reason the stores left downtown was high taxes. They just keep building, and have no real plan... since long before we moved here, and probably will continue for long after we're gone.

Anyway. The railyards were great.

KFBK's Freedom Flight is in Washington. At the WWII memorial, this group of Boy Scouts came up and saluted them and said "Thank You for your service."

Whew. Lileks has pictures that look, shall-we-say, familiar. Unfortunately.

Hitchens eviscerates Michael Moore.

Oh, THAT Liberal Media. And this, too. The AP spins out of control.

Safire on the 9/11 commission staff. Jarvis says Horse. Barn. Gone.

Marines rescue Iraqi bus passenger. Chrenkoff posts his Good News From Iraq, 4.

In 1998, the National Review posted 200 reasons why Clinton should go. Lest we forget. Andrew Sullivan on Rather and Clinton.

Finally, a free speech protest.