old business

Clearing the open windows:

1.) Crazy person: "Rumsfeld wanted to be sure I saw the many letters of praise and kind words he had received following the announcement of his resignation. He had sorted the letters according to source — members of Congress, foreign dignitaries, U.S. military personnel, former associates, friends — and filed them in large, three-ring binders."

(He is big -- it's the movies that got small.)

2.) A city government used its eminent domain power to take property for a commercial development, never notifying the owner personally -- they ran a little "legal notice" in a newspaper, then pounced. Ten years later, after a decade of torture in the courts, he's vindicated and made whole. The comments following the story -- he was a land speculator who deserved to lose his property! -- are just...it...I don't....

3.) Previously noted.