Parking

1. It turns out the Los Angeles park in Tuesday's dustup was MacArthur Park. Maybe it rained and the cake was ruined. Anyway, some of the more militant protestors would not obey the orders of the police and there was a confrontation. Both sides apparently invoked the schoolyard excuse, "He started it," and the protestors threw things at the police, and the police overreacted. Nobody's going to be right in this matter.

2. You remember, I talked earlier about the indolent. Well, yesterday, on a TV court show (I watch too many of them, but I am able to write these posts simultaneously.), I saw one of the queens of the indolent. She looked well-fed, physically strong, and she had no trouble trying (unsuccessfully) to cheat a check-cashing store out of $2950. When questioned by the judge, she admitted she had been living on "disability" for two years with "asthma and arthritis." The judge rightly pointed out she was cheating the government, because, although she was in her 40's, there are people who are much older who have worked their entire lives with those ailments. (Just ask the drug companies.)