I'm on jury duty (which I can write about later), and I plan to get back to my list of books read on Audible in 2011, but I just want to note what's in the news.
Guantanamo, of course, including Louise Specht's Open Forum piece "Guantanamo continues to harm us all." There was also a good letter in yesterday's Chronicle "Gitmo? Still?" by Ralph E. Stone, who points out that we can't keep our "holier than thou" rhetoric going: "Until the 171 prisoners at Gitmo have their day in court or are transferred or released, and Gitmo is closed, let us not hear the Obama administration or any member of Congress criticize other countries for human rights abuses."
Then there a "sheriff in trouble," Ross Mirkarimi, who just took his oath of office as a revelation about domestic fiolence came out. (An e-mail and picture of a bruise he gave his wife?) Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi hasn't disavowed her husband's defense of her in her shoplifting at Norstrom's--that she has a brain tumor. I guess that explains the Tea Party. Not that the rest of our politicians are doing a lot better.
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