The college football season begins tomorrow with a home game for UC Berkeley, playing Tennessee in a re-match of last year's opening game in Knoxville. Meanwhile, the tree hugging (literally) protestors outside have been fenced-in for their own protection. They have installed themselves in several trees outside the stadium on the theory that the non-endangered vegetation is somehow sacred, and should not be cut down in order to build new facilities and renovate the stadium (including necessary seismic reinforcement). The University maintains that the fence is necessary to protect the protestors from the 72,000 fans attending tomorrow's sellout, including many fans of the Vols who have followed their beloved team to Berkeley for the contest. The protestors have asked a judge to order the fence removed.The sheer brazen chutzpah of these odiferous obstructionists beggars the mind. Check out the photographs of them by Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle. They are...(Read Full Post)