I am not surprised by the Zimmerman verdict, but he certainly generated the situation and bears the responsibility of guilt in some manner. Nothing more to say about that.
The Book Review is the only stimulating place today. There are some priceless quotes in the Book Review of Act of Congress by Robert Kaiser. I don't think I will read 417 pages on Congress's process, but the book review is worth reading.
Book Review
The part that got my sleep addled brain working was the following: "Kaiser is skeptical of public opinion, and even more so of the politicians who pander to it." "Let's concede that the great unwashed can be ignorant, irrational and erratic...The voters are no bargain." "Public opinion may not be responsible or dignified....But sometimes it is our only hope."
The subject of the book is Dodd-Frank which I broadly support because I trust neither the regulators nor the banks to be scrupulous at all time individually, but hope that collectively they will never create the environment that led to the Great Recession. We can always argue about specific details in the bill, but we are in a better place with the broad strokes in place and it appears that voters, who greatly distress me as personified in the House of Representatives, are responsible for this bill.
Then I read a brief blurb on Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley. My 1st thought was "Is that David Brinkley's son?" I haven't googled that yet to find out, but it would be ironic. I also think I will read this book because it will be interesting and nostalgic. I don't intellectually believe nostalgia is a good base for policy making which must deal with the present, but it is a nice resting place for relaxing. The 50's and 60's were seemingly ideal for a child to grow up in (as I did) and Walter Cronkite was in many ways the best chronicler of that time for most of us.
And that's the way it is, today, Sunday July 14th.
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