ow leads to lower ob

Sue says I'm an obsessive person. Just because I spent most of yesterday morning pulling out each and every weed from a largish area of the backyard? Heck, I stopped when the sun started baking my neck, didn't I? Wouldn't an obsessive person have kept going?

That being said, I just finished weeding the whole backyard. The last area went faster than I had expected, but I should have remembered that, every year, as I get closer to the cactus, the more of its needly debris are strewn in the dirt, and the lower my standards of thoroughness... ("Obsessiveness!") Shush... As I was saying, the lower my standards become.

a disagreement with Harper Lee

Today I saw Agatha the birdslayer being chased by a mockingbird.
I expect she now disagrees with Harper Lee about the killing of certain avians.

eight million stories

"There are eight million stories in the Naked City."

Today, I watched four of those stories and what strikes me about the 1961 TV series I followed way back then is that the bad guys tend to be damaged people, and that's how the two main cops treat them. Even when Mickey Rooney's character walks into a crowded arena with a bomb strapped to his hand, the cops listen to this ignored man who wants to be *heard*. My favorite episode is the one where Martin Balsam plays someone who committed a robbery that went very badly, and he's been sentenced to the Chair. He's going thru a new trial though because the officer who had arrested him eventually realized that his criminal behavior had been caused by a tumor in his brain and, now without the tumor, he's lost all memories of the last ten years and is basically a different person.

By the way, how many cop shows do you know where an episode begins with a cop quoting Plato?