Morning reading: "LOL your way to transcendantal bliss? Om, yeah!" I read this yesterday but read it again this morning to get my brain in gear or, more accurately, to get it into gamma, which is what humor can do just as well as (better than, I say!) meditation. I also read Mike Hale's 2009 review of Wonderland, which I looked up yesterday because of my comparing psychiatrists' going to the psych ward with teachers going to campus. Finally read Joshua Pechthalt's "Accreditors gone wild--time to call for rationality" from Apri 27, 2014. Agreed with Jonathan Zimmerman's Open Forum piece "Donald Sterling and the end of privacy," pointing out that that loathsome racist should have the right to privacy and learned about Louis Brandeis, who expressed concern about privacy back in the 1890, when photos could be taken and printed in newspapers without the consent of those photographed. Read about the 17-minute delay in reporting the disappearance of the Malaysian jet after it went off the rador at Kuala Lumpar (which I vowed to learn to pronounce) and was reported by the Vietnamese who didn't see it on their radar. Looked again and Swans and ceramic eggs, cynets and father trying to kill his sons. (Seen as competition in mating season?) "Whale-watch rivals sparring over spouts" is about Dana Point, a city so well-known for whale watching that it has an annual festival dedicated to whales. An Iranian mother showed mercy instead of asking retribution and kicking the chair from underneath a man to be hanged for killing her son (and became a heroine instead of a soft-on-crime target) in Iran, where there were 369 public executions last year. But most compelling of all was the case of the Lodi man--now appealing his conviction--who always sounded innocent and framed by those I suspected knew that he wasn't guilty but needed to make it look as if we need the "security" forces invading our live and dragging "suspects" out of their homes with trumped up charges.
Time for the Y!
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