There's a shocking trial result out of central Italy, where an earthquake in 2009 killed 308. The court brought in guilty verdicts on charges of manslaughter for seven scientists, ruling that they should have predicted the disaster. According to an article I just read, earthquakes are virtually impossible to predict. Imagine the ramifications if such cases were brought around the world. And when the manslaughter cases were ruled upon, no doubt civil cases would ensue. Environmental paranoiacs would be able to be even more of a nuisance than they already are. What a scary precedent.
Last year I wondered if Giants' WR Victor Cruz was just a flash in the pan. Given his stats thus far this season, he seems here to stay, a star. Kudos to the team's talent evaluators, who have unearthed some real gems, starting with DE Osi Umenyiora several years ago, continuing with DE Jason Pierre-Paul, and RB David Wilson and DB Stevie Smith.
It's less than two hours to air time of Away with Words, where I will be interviewed tonight by my literary angel, Victoria Valentine and her co-host Jill. If you want to hear me make an idiot of myself, here's a link to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/aww1/2012/10/10/away-with-words-live
Bad luck became good today for the floating book shop. I ventured to Park Slope, waited in vain an hour for a parking spot to open up on 9th Street between 7th & 6th Avenue, then decided to look elsewhere. I found a spot on 8th Street and lugged two crates around the corner just below 5th Avenue, facing the side of a Chase bank, bus top at my back. An hour later a middle age woman stopped by. Doreen mails books to prison inmates. It's the sort of endeavor I would expect a resident of that liberal bastion to participate in. She bought A Hitch in Twilight and handed me a card that had a website on it: www.FREEJOHNGIUCA.com/ Giuca, 21, was convicted of the murder of Mark Fisher, a football player at a local college, a case that made headlines for many weeks. His mother, Dee Quinn, a beautiful woman of 46, went undercover on her own, entrapping one of the jurors. Her efforts were detailed in an article in Vanity Fair: Mother Justice by Christopher Ketcham. The case is now on appeal. The site asks visitors to sign a petition. I did not. I prefer to let the courts decide. I don't think Dee and Doreen are the same person, although several years have passed since the trial ended. Doreen was upbeat and kind and doesn't seem to be carrying the woe the mother of the wrongfully convicted would. I hope the next trial uncovers the truth, whatever it may be. Thank you, ma'am, and also to the gentleman who purchased the book on guitar chords.
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Vic's Third Novel (Print or Kindle): http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic's Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
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