OK, so there's this couple on "House Hunters" . . .

Looking for a condo in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago. They want to spend a maximum of $300K. Good luck with that!

"Weeping with rage for my little American."

-- the first email Lawrence O'Donnell received after the verdict in the Zimmerman case was announced on Saturday night, accompanied by a picture of an adorable two-year-old African-American boy.

Silent Thread for Trayvon Martin and his family.

If you have a gun and the other guy doesn't . . .

Who carries the primary responsibility to make sure a confrontation doesn't turn deadly? To my mind, if I have the gun, the onus is on me. What say you?

If I had been in Trayvon Martin's place, I would have gotten back home alive.

I am a middle-aged white female. Does anybody here seriously believe that if George Zimmerman had seen me and not TM, he would have looked at me twice? If you do, I have a bridge to sell you.

OMG! Daryl from "Walking Dead" is on "Law & Order SVU!"

He's playing a rock star!

And now a word from the health-care trenches:

I am reading "God and Empire" by John Dominick Crossan. In it, he gets to talking about the sociological aspects of health, illness, and disease. He quotes a book entitled "The Illness Narratives" by Arthur Kleinman. In it, Kleinman quotes a young internist named Lenore Light, who is from an affluent black family but works in an inner-city ghetto clinic. Here is how she describes an encounter with one patient:

Today I saw an obese hypertensive mother of six. No husband. No family support. No job. Nothing. A world of brutalizing violence and drugs and poverty and teenage pregnancies -- and just plain mind-numbing crises, one after another after another. What can I do? What good is it to recommend a low-salt diet, to admonish her about control of her pressure: She is under such real outer pressure, what does the inner pressure matter? What is killing her is her world, not her body. In fact, her body is a product of her world. She is a hugely overweight hulk who is a survivor of circumstances and lack of resources and cruel messages to consume impossible for her to hear and not feel rage at the limits of her world. Hey, what she needs is not medicine but a social revolution.

Adorable Video: Buttercup the duck receives a prosthetic foot.

And a check from AFLAC.

http://www.usatoday.com/media/cinematic/video/2484879/

8:26 pm here in Indy and I hear fireworks already.

They seem to start earlier every year.

Attention "Walking Dead" fans:

Marathon on AMC right now. Looks like Season One.