Harper Lee’s “new” Novel: Mayhem or Must-Read??

So maybe I’ll look at Go Set A Watchman, and maybe not. But pending some more definite negative news, I’m much inclined to think that the one person safest from all this kerfuffle may well be Harper Lee herself.

Especially if they let her be the Boo Radley (rather than Scout) she recently described herself as: in which case, a book may come out, but she won’t, and no mockingbirds will die.

Still, I’ll keep checking the big knothole in that old tree down the block every time I pass it. Just in case.

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Jeb Bush & The Terri Schiavo Case: A Terrifying Story

“Trying to write laws that clearly are outside the constitutionality of his state, trying to override the entire judicial system, that’s very, very dangerous,” said Arthur Caplan, a New York University bioethicist who edited a book about the Schiavo case. “When you’re willing to do that, you’re willing to break the back of the country.”

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