IN TODAY'S NEWS:
Oakland, California (where I currently live), RIOTS over a verdict given to a white former transit police officer for the shooting death of an African-American man.
Vienna, Austria (where I plan to live someday), Russian and American SPIES traded on the tarmac at Vienna International Airport.
Prisoner Swap in Vienna Ends U.S.-Russia Espionage Case
~ Both sound like they could be newspaper headlines from decades ago.
~ There may also be a novel, a thriller, a story in here somewhere.
~ Times change, and yet they don't seem to change so much after all.
