My 40 minute train ride turned out to be 2 hours long today. First the train ahead of us got stuck in the trans-bay tube for some reason. We sat behind it in the tube for about 20 minutes or so before they gave up and backed us up and back out of the tunnel to West Oakland. Announcements on the public address system advised us to "seek alternate transportation" to the city. Being in West Oakland there was no alternate transportation! So I waited. And waited. And waited. Finally they got the two sections of the broken train out of the tunnel in front of us and we headed into the city. About 1/2 way through the tube the brakes on OUR train locked up, filling the car with foul smelling burnt brake smoke and bringing us to a halt yet again. Eventually the brakes were fixed and we made it into San Francisco.
I would boycott NBC, if I ever watched it that is. I actually never watch anything on the old line networks, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX. Everything I watch is on the cable only stations... do they still broadcast over the air? Ah well, this story is about the fact that it seems NBC refused to air an ad put together by some Catholic outfit that features an embryo and all of the hardships it faced in early life ending up with the revelation that they were talking about Obama. Here is the ad , check it out and see how unoffensive it is. Like I said, if I watched them I'd quit now. :-/