I'd already gotten my brain in gear, this morning with a buffet of newspaper articles instead of the books that are stacked on the table on the left of my recliner. (The tea tray is on the right.)
I'd read about Freddie Grey, whose spine was inexplicably broken when he was arrested by the police...the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe coming to the US and to Silicon Valley (also part of the U.S. though a very special planet)...Israel's launching an air strike on its border with Syria...James Holmes going on trial for the movie theatre murders...Jason Saolu's pit bulls with eye glasses...Nepal's 3,300 dead after the earthquake and the Mt. Everest avalanche that was triggered by the earthquake, killing a Silicon Valley CEO...parking permits..Finland's charging a millionaire $58,000 for speeding, a fine in proportion to his income...the model for Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter, Saturday Evening Post 1943 (which I confused with the one "We can do it" done by a Pittsburgh artist),...Patreus's getting 2 years probation and a $100,000 fine for his revealing top-secret information (not having to join Snowden),...the strip teases offered in China to get people to funerals in rural areas so that the deceased can be properly honored in number,..the Bad Reporter's view that Bonds was protected by the personal belief exemption because he believed steroids prevented autism and the revelation that most service gods are not registered. In addition to those captivating reports, I read Nanette Asimov's latest piece on CCSF, this one "College's battle prompts bills to curb accrediting panel" and two articles on San Francisco--our tourist attractions, one of the ongoing once-a-week section by Peter Hartlaub (who never bothered to respond to my mailing) and a piece by a New Yorker returning to San Francisco "S.F. works its magic on a New Yorker" (Matt Haber.)
But now that I've logged in what this blog is not about, I need to create a new blog focusing on Home and Hearth and books that speak volumes.
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