Maple Street Loop/DFL

I walked the Maple Street Loop through fairly cold rain this morning in 30:19. Seventeen minutes into the 2015 Cooper Bowl, the Green Bay Packers lead the Fat Chicks, 22.70-17.70, and are projected by Yahoo® to win, 117.46-96.74.*
*every Democrat Football League owner knows these projections are routinely ass backward.

Paragraph(s) of the day from A Different Closet

Green was alone. He listened to the traffic, wind whistling through the building's gutters, and echoes of Lardner’s doubts. He had dared not concede his own. He believed, or hoped, they were minimal, and perhaps merely composed from the residue of Lardner’s. He knew he wanted to believe Keith was what he claimed, because from the night he first watched and heard him on television, he had imagined him capable of significant contributions, perhaps nearly perfect for their cause. He knew that the idea of equality for homosexuals was scarcely considered by anyone outside of the gay community. A few liberals offered sympathy, but those capable of instituting change in politics and the courts were forever aware of their constituencies and the consequential accountability that demanded their caution. The trick then for Green and SAGA, as was always the case in these sorts of matters, was for someone or something to convince the public that change was right and necessary and in its interest and was furthermore, at best, its idea. Green thought Keith seemed like a man equipped to carry and deliver the messages needed for that end and to reveal their truth to anyone who watched him. Indeed, Keith seemed like an ideal candidate for political office, one capable of making a legitimate run, an almost unthinkable rarity in the gay and lesbian community. Green had already begun to daydream.  He could wait for this weekend to pass, but he knew the virtue of patience was easily mishandled. After all, he had once patiently watched men destroy his career. Now was the time to gather his resources, and Green suspected Keith Ingram was among them. He would call him again on Monday.