If the US Airways flight that yesterday took off from La Guardia and got only as far as the Hudson River suffered the "double bird strike" claimed by its pilot, it would just be the latest incidence of a two-pound creature downing a 91,000-pound plane. The Bird Strike Committee USA (yes, such a body exists) claims that bird-to-plane collisions cost the civil and military aviation industries $600 million annually and have resulted in 219 fatalities in the past 20 years.Some "fun" facts from the B
Would you eat McNuggets made from this?"It's time to start calling a chicken a chicken," San Francisco attorney Steve Baughman says of his latest Web endeavor. The chicken in question, it so happens, could probably feed many of the homeless encamped in Golden Gate Park -- that is, if you could ever get it to stop talking.Baughman has launched a new Web site devoted to skewering Rush Limbaugh, the reigning monarch of conservative talk radio. The site, www.rushisachicken.com, urges Limbaugh to ste
Phil Bronstein, former executive vice president and editor of the Chronicle, now editor at large and newspaper doomsayer, was on The Colbert Report last night. Nothing particularly revelatory was said, which was not a surprise as the quick interviews that take place on the show are not so much an opportunity for Stephen Colbert to ask hard-hitting questions as it is a chance to showcase his wit, which he did right away by musing, "If newspapers go out of business, where will they print the obitu
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