Next stop just pushes luck

0 Comments | USA TODAY, April, 2008 | by Tom Weir

Game On!

The torch relay path not taken

If only the Chinese had asked, we could have helped them with this Olympic torch relay thing.

Rule1. When you're trying to keep a shady rep on human rights under wraps you don't hold parades in places like London or Paris.

And the choice for today's jog? San Francisco. Are you nuts?

I watched the People's Park uprising in Berkeley as a kid in the '60s. I remember the day they passed a pickaxe around the crowd, tore a hole through the street asphalt and planted a redwood tree. (Take that, Pentagon!)

Bay Area people live for the kind of chaos the merry pranksters are going to unleash on the torch relay today. There is a better chance of seeing Dick Cheney light a bong on the...