I want to write a book titled "Emails From My Father" -- a compilation of various emails I've received from him over the years. I'm now working instead on starting a new blog with the same title -- but he's not quite so sure about this "blog thing," as he calls it.

Nevertheless, here's a perfect entry I received from him yesterday (Sat Mar 06, 3:02 PM) regarding the Martha Stewart verdict:

Please note Martha did not say "I'm not guilty" or "I am innocent". She said, "I did nothing wrong." I think that's the most damning thing she could have said and is sure to anger the sentencing judge more than anything else she could have said. Because she IS guilty. Which means she's NOT innocent. Which means she's SO above the law , she doesn't consider breaking the law as "doing anything wrong."

It's called the arrogance of power and comes from an inflated sense of all the good they've done. He'll throw the book at her, not for her crimes, but for her failure to understand that she did INDEED do something wrong. To cheat, to lie, to steal is legally WRONG. To not think so, is morally wrong.

Just a thought.

Dad

Today, I read something similar in a Newsday column. It usually works that way -- I hear it from my dad, then I read it someplace else. I've been telling him to write a book for years but to no avail.