The Writer's Life 3/1 - Billboards Plus

Sabo, a conservative street artist, has taken aim at the Oscars and Hollywood’s sexual harassment scandals by using three billboards in L.A. that look like those featured in the nominated film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.  Here they are:

An Italian model has been suspended from Instagram due to fears she is trying to influence upcoming erections - er, elections, by promising oral sex to male voters. She claims to have satisfied 700 men after a 2016 election. Though tempting, at this stage of my life nothing could get me to vote for a leftist. Maybe if a beauty promised once a week's worth. Here is the woman in question:

In his business column in today's NY Post, John Crudele raises interesting points about driver-less vehicles. Here are excerpts, edited by yours truly: "...are they going to be programmed to adhere to the speed limit? If so, they will be the only vehicles on the road obeying the law..." "... if they do exceed the limit, who gets the ticket? Will the programmers be tracked down and made to pay? Or will the passenger have to pay even though he/she is not responsible?"... "... how will towns balance budgets without high ticket revenue?"... "And what about insurance companies? If nobody is getting tickets, will it hurt profits?" I doubt I would be comfortable in such a vehicle, but it wouldn't surprise me if they became the new norm for the younger and future generations.

Donations outnumbered sales by nine to one at today's session of the floating book shop. My thanks to Matt, who bought Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell, the wildly successful author of the fictional crime series featuring CSI whiz Kay Scarpetta. According to Wiki, Cornwell worked at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia for six years, as a technical writer and then as a computer analyst. She also volunteered with the Richmond Police Department... The most interesting of today's donations came from Alan, a retired cabbie: Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military by Bryan Mark Rigg. According to a blurb at Amazon: "...as many as 150,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen of partial Jewish descent (Mischlinge, in Nazi terminology) served..."

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