Notes on a Wednesday Morning

At the golf course; spent my early morning get-the-sleep-out-of-my-eyes time reading some more of The Book Thief. Now I am in gear and about ready to go out on the golf course where Eric is finishing up his green work. A couple of golfers are out there, campers.

From the NYT:

Lifers as Teenagers Seeking a Second Chance. The first paragraph:

In December, the United Nations took up a resolution calling for the abolition of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for children and young teenagers. The vote was 185 to 1, with the United States the lone dissenter.

Can you believe that? Are we just being contrary? Or is there something seriously wrong here? Of course, we also have the SCHIP brouhaha (expanded funding for children's medical insurance) going on right now, where, they say over at dKos, pressure on Republicans against the bill has been unrelenting. That's a good sign, right? Yes.

Gotta go. More about children later - The Book Thief, if you remember, is the story of a young girl in Munich during WWII.