Formal Flashing of Digital Cameras from Tourists in Trafalgar Square

In the midst of attending the sentencing hearing that I mentioned in yesterday's post I somehow forgot to include the most interesting. After the first defendant, the ringleader, was sentenced he decided to issue a "message" to the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted his case. As he was being escorted out the courtroom by the U.S. Marshal, the defendant uttered the following phrase:

"It don't (expletive) matter. I'm a lion among men. I'll see you."

Well then. I'm pretty sure that William Manchester described Winston Churchill as The Last Lion, but I've never heard anyone state they were a "lion among men" much less someone who was just sentenced to 152 years in federal prison. Perhaps people cope with disappointment in different ways.

I'm currently watching the first half of the Mavs-Warriors game in Oakland, and I have to say: I'm glad I'm not planning to watch the entire game because I'm pretty sure that my retinas would be burned out by staring all game at the crowd wearing uniform yellow shirts that were issued to them before the game. It probably reminds Stephen Jackson of what his future stay in the Marion County (Indiana) jail is going to look like.

I know that was a low blow, but it needed to be said.