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[Note from the Photo Desk:   After taking and posting photos from the morning portion of the Occupy Oakland May Day protest, we returned to Frank Ogawa Plaza near sundown and took some photos of the police coming out of the City Hall in riot gear.   At that point the batteries in the Coolpix camera ran out of juice, so we went home and listened to KCBS news radio to learn about the exact number of inevitable arrests.]

 

 

Wright Morris wrote:   "The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the FBI."

 

Now the disk jockey will play Max Frost and the Troopers' song "Shape of Things to Come," Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz," and (from 1966) the New Breed's song "I've Been Wrong Before."   [If W. C. Fields were still alive would he say:   "A man's gotta believe in something and I believe "I'll Have Another" will win!"?]   We have to go to National Free Comics Day, a Cinco de Mayo celebration, and place a bet on a real horse race.   Have a "frisked for weapons" type week.

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