Monday night was the third night in a row that about 500 demonstrators disrupted freeways and local traffic as they marched several miles around Berkeley.  They are beginning to wear out their welcome, even in the famously leftist and demonstration-friendly city of Berkeley and in the entire Bay Area. Television news helicopters started hovering overhead about 7 PM, when the demonstrators started marching toward Interstate 80, one of the busiest freeways in the country, and the Bay Area’s principal link to the east.  They managed to shut down that vital artery and, for good measure, blocked passenger trains on the Capital Corridor commuter route that parallels I-80.  Imagine that!  Passenger trains are regarded as semi-holy, purportedly saving Mother Gaia, and yet the protesters blocked them. Local TV news reported on a woman who was stuck in traffic as she went into labor on her way to the hospital.  She was eventually extricated as an ambulance...(Read Full Post)