Blum
“Justice and law, well, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins.”
– From “A Dry White Season” about apartheid
When I was 23, I was stopped at 12:07 a.m. and cited for lewd contact in Olympia, Wash. My crime: Peeing in a public place, lewd conduct on the citation, which, for the record, took place next to a bridge over Puget Sound where the bored policeman arrested me.
I asked the…
