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Sunday mornings are my favorite. Except for this one. Watching the Trayvon verdict last night left me with a lot of mixed emotions. I had some lengthy conversations with some of the people I consider to be great minds in my life afterwards, but still wasn't able to completely resolve it internally. 
On one hand, the fact that a young man was killed when he probably didn't need to be, is a travesty in itself. Like most, I think race had a great deal to do with the decision to follow and assault him. I think that if Trayvon looked like me, this case wouldn't be an issue at all. 
On the other hand, we have a justice system that is set up to dictate a result "beyond a reasonable doubt". If I was ever on trial for something, I would want there to be a 100%-no-doubt decision about my guilt. If there was the slightest chance I was innocent (pending that I actually was), I would not want to be locked up. The same can be said here. 
What I have the biggest issue with is that there was no guilt in the verdict. Obviously 1st degree murder would be to harsh, but I see no reason a grown ass man needed to kill a boy much smaller than him because he felt threatened. And obviously I'm no lawyer, but I have to imagine that there is a murder degree that would be applicable in this case. I hope the appropriate result will come out one day, but less than 12 hours after the decision, it still feels so up in the air...

Sidenotes:
- I have been consuming such a crazy amount of chicken these past few months. I feel like I'm single handily wiping out an entire generation of chickens. 
- I forgot how good Sam Cooke is. One of his songs came on my shuffle a few days ago, and I've been trying to recreate his catalog on itunes. Such an amazing voice that we lost too early.
- I've really been dying to watch Stand By Me, The Sandlot and Do The Right Thing recently. Maybe it's because it's summer, but those are some awesome movies. 
- I'm really having writers block when it comes to this new book. It's revolving around baseball, but it needs to be something better than just a love story... 
- Candy Crush is running my life

99 problems but a blog ain't one

I'm currently listening to the new Jay Z album on heavy rotation. Minus the cut with Rick Ross (one of my least favorite rappers EVER) the joint is pretty good. But then I started thinking that it's such a change from what Jay used to be. Which of course led me to break out the old Hov albums. And I have to say, old Jay Z goes HARD. To the point where I really miss his old stuff. The jams with Primo have to be some of my favorite songs of all time. Now, he spends way too much time trying to please the masses with Pharell and Kanye beats. The Black Album was probably the last album that was actually good.
Did I really just use a paragraph to talk about Jay Z? I guess I did....

Sidenote time:
- I am way too into Candy Crush. It's literally taken over part of my life
- Softball is off to a very slow season. We lost our 1st game
- Can't leave rap alone the game needs me