Reporters Notebook (Gburg Times - 08/18/07) - "Reasonable confidence"

Rest assured, Pennsylvanians — just when we began to question the safety of the state bridge system, the Honorable Gov. Edward Rendell comforted our fears.

"Pennsylvanians can cross our bridges with reasonable confidence," Rendell said in the days following the tragic Minnesota bridge collapse.

(Yep, my opening line was complete sarcasm.)

With reasonable confidence?

I'm not even sure what that means.

"Just because a bridge is classified as 'deficient' doesn't mean it's bad orgoing to fail," our legislative leader continued.

What kind of classification system doesn't define the word 'deficient' as poor or faulty?

Must be a government dictionary.A

nd I say that with reasonable confidence.

- Scot Andrew Pitzer