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The post title is the title of a 1913 Christian hymn sung by Cat Stevens that I often listen to on my morning walk/run. I had to look up the lyrics in the second verse because as Stevens sings it — and I've listened closely, over and over — it sounds like this: Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from Heaven Like the first cue ball on the first grass Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden Sprung in completeness where His feet pass But there can't be a cue ball in Eden!

Looking west: Looking east:

"In the process, victims are often exposed to exponentially more eyeballs.... Schklowsky, who taught drama and directed school plays... stashed at least one small camera in a drama department changing room to capture students as they undressed, police said. Such cameras are part of a generation of devices so small they can be hidden almost anywhere. Voyeurs have also turned to a range of devices embedded with cameras. A Johns Hopkins gynecologist filmed women with cameras in pens and phone chargers. A D.C. rabbi used a clock radio with a hidden camera to shoot women who were undressing for a ritual bath. A thriving online marketplace has even more devices: miniature cameras embedded in sneaker tops, shaving cream cans, electric razors and scales...." From "One accused teacher, 8,000 dirty images: A school’s exploitation shows no place is safe from hidden cameras anymore" (WaPo). By the way, the headline is terrible. There's nothing "dirty" about teena

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... the sign says "no swimming," but you can perhaps find a way to swim metaphorically... as you talk about whatever you want.

But here it is: "Frederick Douglass photos smashed stereotypes. Could Elizabeth Warren selfies do the same?" Smashed stereotypes ... God help us. This is an idea for a column that should have been considered for 5 to 10 seconds and laid to rest. Some text, to give you the idea: The two are separated by race, gender and more than 100 years of history that forged an America that would probably be unrecognizable to Douglass. Still, experts say, their use of photography collapses the distance: Douglass sat for scores of pictures to normalize the idea of black excellence and equality, and Warren’s thousands of selfies with supporters could do the same for a female president. This is like some nitwit celeb saying that Hollywood is reminiscent of a slave plantation. As Yale professor David Blight writes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” Douglass used the photos — in which he appeared elegantly dressed, his hair perfectly arranged — as “a

Glenn Reynolds blogs this CNN story (via Ed Morrissey ). The barebones story from CNN: The masked teens -- a 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds -- approached three residents around 4 a.m. Monday at the front yard of a home just outside Conyers and tried to rob them.... One of the would-be robbers took out a gun and fired shots at them before one of the residents returned fire, authorities said. "The victims of the attempted robbery were all uninjured, but the three attempted robbery suspects were all shot during the exchange of gunfire and succumbed to their injuries, one on scene and two at a local hospital after being transported," the sheriff's department said in a news release.... "I heard a guy yelling for help. 'Help me, help me, I'm dying, I'm dying, help me, help me," [a neighbor] Brian Jenkins told the station. Another neighbor ran out to help after he heard what sounded like five shots from a handgun, he said. "Then I heard somebody ha

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Why travel all over the world looking for things to see when you can see so much on repeated walks through the same place? It's like marriage...