Three Thoughts For Thursday

By JOHN P. WISEOne Great SeasonATLANTA -- I've got some non-football items to address today. I was born here in Atlanta, but only lived here until I was 2 years old.So mom wants me to visit our old church and maybe even the hospital where I was born. I think I'll also visit our old neighbors, the Pompilios. And I need to hit Best Buy because, and let me know what you think of this: The 1TB external hard drive I bought right before I left on this tour doesn't work. I saved some things to it each of the first two or three weeks, and it just sat for a month. It must have gotten kicked or something by the baggage handlers.Anyway, the Best Buy people said they'd do a free exchange, in which case I'd get a new drive but would lose the content on the old one. Or they'd ship it out for the data to be retrieved for several hundred dollars. It's really a no-win situation. Isn't the point of guaranteeing the products you sell to protect consumers from having to ...