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OK, since I apparently wasn't precise enough, whatever that means --

Can an opinion be wrong? I'm not talking about opinions of taste here -- saying "I think red wine tastes like crap" is an example of what I am not talking about. I'm talking about things like "The earth is flat" or "All filk music is absolute crap."

DNA Evidence gets man released into a world he no longer recognizes

I just thought this article was so sad -- this poor guy was locked up at age 16 for a crime he didn't commit, and now, at 40 years of age, he's trying to build a life.

As so often happens lately, Michael Anthony Williams is lost.

The driver's license examiner towers over him, rattling off orders through the rolled-down window on the driver's side. But at each command, Williams, 40, hesitates. He signals to the left when he is told to turn right. He forgets to turn off the windshield wipers.

He fails the test, another blow in Williams' quest to put together a life that was taken from him when he was just a boy.

At the age of 16, a sophomore in Jonesboro High School in northern Louisiana, he was arrested and convicted of raping his female math tutor. He spent 24 years in the Angola state penitentiary. Two months ago, he walked free. A DNA test -- which didn't exist when he was growing up -- proved what Williams had claimed all along: the state had gotten the wrong man.

Now, like dozens of others wrongfully accused and subsequently exonerated, a bewildered, once-young man finds himself, without resources, thrown into a world with which he is entirely unfamiliar.

Damn weather

When I left the house, it was mostly sunny. Now it's raining. I have an umbrella (because I left it in my backpack without realizing it) but no coat.

Oh well. I'll be indoors most of the day anyway.