Late in the afternoon there was a bombing incident at the Boston Marthon that took the already sold off stocks a bit deeper.
VIX spiked up sharply. I took some hedges off.
"You are the very cause of your ignorance, yourselves. You put away the light, yourselves; you first pluck out both your own eyes, yourselves; and after that other men’s too, so that the blind may lead the blind, until you both fall into the pit.”
Thomas More, The Sadness of Christ (Gethsemane), Tower of London, 1535