Joining to subscribe and add a couple of comments. Good subjects so far.

Then of course that super duper bowl ...... the Giants train locally at SUNY Albany and the Patriots are not far away. I can't spend Sunday afternoons watching behemoths run into each other until the play offs, so my knowledge of that sport is l-o-o-o-w.

Unions - not pretty where I worked at Schenectady, NY and at GE. A couple of 100 plus day strikes, along with a few in the 10 to 30 day bracket were pretty painful for the rank and file and pretty much destroyed the GE manufacturing businesses to the point some were sold, others moved to other locations and then more were sited 'off shore'. The local plant went from about 40,000 to about 3500 with some contractors as well. 600 buildings of outhouse size up to several acres of land coverage abandoned, then demolished and destroying the city's and a local town's tax base.