Outside Portland after meeting with Greg Noyes, the journalist who has done extensive research on the Chinese miners massacre, I came across a sight not likely in Philadelphia. The scene: a heavy downpour, 3 lanes of Interstate slowed to a crawl as both the merging lane (where I was) and the right lane squeeze left, and two Tualatin Police Department cruisers creeping along, one in the middle lane and one 50 feet behind on the highway shoulder. As I finally merged, I saw what they were escorting: an extended family of geese comprised of 10 or so "teenagers" plus their parents, all taking a VERY leisure-paced Sunday morning constitutional. When I tried to visualize the Philly police and Schuykill drivers faced with the same situation, every image carnage and a cloud of flying feathers...