All Right.... I'll Write About It
Trayvon and George are everywhere. ESPN offered no respite; Stephen A Smith was bloviating again this morning, this time about justice and Florida's Stand Your Ground law, and attitude and hoodies. The Arizona Daily Star devoted the main story on the front page to the aftermath of the trial. Facebook is consumed with outrage. I can't escape. I'll dive in, instead. No one knows what really happened. No one ever does. Eyewitnesses are unreliable, especially when one of them is dead and the other doesn't testify. People came running, but it was dark, they were frightened, they couldn't really see or hear. The 911 call is muddy; did George say punk or coon? As Diane Rheem wondered aloud this morning, how could those two words be confused? There was blood where it should have been and none where it might have been and who was on top was the question of the week. There were a lot of blonde women making pronouncements...