I took the day off due to the dehydration sickness that’s been afflicting me the last couple of days or so (meaning, in effect, that I’ve had a three day hangover from my carousing on Saturday night).

Today I’ve done little more than studied Hamlet, which I read in my Senior Lit class in high school, and is little more than a rehashing. The fact that I’m actually interested in it now makes a huge difference. I don’t think I realized how much of an influential character Polonius was before. Class was so-so; I had to read a lengthy bit of Hamlet outloud (as the part of Horatio) and it was kind of blegh otherwise. I have to propose an essay topic for Billy Budd by Thursday and haven’t read past chapter one yet. I won’t do it tonight because I have to read three pages of Sociology for an exam tomorrow. And yet, I’m not that stressed out because I’m mostly very interested in all of it.

Anyway:

• one bloody thing after another – a holloween story.
• Troy Davis’ appeal is dismissed. An innocent man will die because the court doesn’t want to be disrupted.
• Judge labors over ‘speedy trials’. It’s hard to identify exactly what is wrong here, but it is awfully close to home. The need for a speedy trial is apparent, and the fact that they were just kind of putting trials off and keeping people incarcerated without sucks, but the fact that they’re pushing a lot of these trials through very quickly (and maybe a little too quickly to give a fair trial) is also disturbing. The DA is mostly a bunch of jerks, from what I can tell. The Augusta-Richmond Co. Government is just a little quirky, might I add -especially with such a difference in socio-economic groups that reside within its bounds. Whew.
• A 90-year old couple with a prescription for marijuana are raided in the war on drugs. Sure, we winning the war alright.
• Some wingnut names his kid Sarah McCain Palin without his wife’s knowledge. ‘Nuff said.
• Lebanon: Switzerland of the Middle-East. I have dreams of this place and find Lebanese women intoxicating. I vow to have a lengthy stay in Beirut at some point in my life.
• Canada votes for a new Prime Minister. Make of it what you will, but Canucks aren’t much different from Americans.
• And finally: Excess Drinking Shrinks the Brain. Which makes me wonder how many of our most noteworthy authors were so soggy most of the time.

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