Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 49. Sunrise is 6:54 and sunset is 5:24 for 10 hours 30 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 14.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
It was political philosopher Thomas Hobbes who observed in 1651 that reason is a spy for the passions (“the Thoughts, are to the Desires, as Scouts, and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired”), where reason is used (however poorly) in service of dark or selfish desires.
Still true in many places, these 375 years later, including too often in Whitewater.
Video shows ocean waves capsizing a boat in Santa Cruz, California: