Well I'd wanted to jot something down about "Ugly and Uglier" (Jagger & Richards), but I see plenty out there already. Yea, they probably ought to call it quits; but I sure as hell wouldn't. Good for them, I say. So I found something else to blog. Stories right here, and here. Let's not conflate everything, K? We're not talking here about a bunch of mindless yokels coming out to get in the way of professionals doing a professional job that calls for the expertise of only trained professionals. What we're talking about, it seems clear to me, is trained and competent people able to produce results that the "authorities" either could not or would not produce. [Capt. Jerry Smith] said the nighttime toe-in maneuver was too risky. "I would not have allowed our pilots to do that mission," he said. Obviously, since other people with their own lives to risk--not to mention that fact that the helicopter was owned by one of the rescuers and not "we the people"--pulled off the rescue. Pete Cunha, a local California Highway Patrol pilot contacted by the newspaper, also said rescuers should have left the task to experts. "It's not a game for...