Down and out semi poet who is down and out in the Low Country of South Carolina after living in Atlanta which is not to be confused with the south, the old south or the new south. Atlanta was a global metropolis with all the pluses and minuses that comes with that. The low country, low because it is low, 8 feet above sea level, is not Podunk but once you get to Podunk, turn left. I try to chronicle a small part of all that through my daily haiku for you.
” … he recognized how eager we are for entertainment that understands the importance of food in structuring and texturing the course of our lives. Isn’t a good meal, especially a simple one, all you want after a long day and a big night? If life is meals, play on.”
In structuring and texturing the course of our lives, isn’t a good meal, especially a simple one, all you want after a long day and a big night?
No, chemtrails are not real, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday, in a notable instance of the Trump administration debunking a conspiracy theory that gained traction amid catastrophic flooding in Central Texas.
For decades, scientists have sought to shut down the chemtrails conspiracy theory, which asserts that the federal government is spraying harmful chemicals into the sky to control the weather, population or food supply. On Thursday, their efforts got a major boost from an unexpected source: two new E.P.A. websites that seek to “provide clear, science-based information” on chemtrail claims as well as on geoengineering, or efforts to intentionally alter Earth’s climate.
Most successful use of Chemtrails ever …
But she closes with:
Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University, said the E.P.A.’s new sites “appear to be a reasonable effort to give people the facts they need to recognize that chemtrails claims lack any scientific basis.” Still, he said, “those already convinced of the conspiracy will likely be unmoved. Instead, they’ll probably just conclude that the E.P.A. is in on the coverup.”
As the King says the Duke in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
“Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?”
Crowds on Hilton Head Island stare in awe at dangerous chemtrails
This potential crime against sporting art is offensive mathematically, geometrically, intellectually and I daresay ethically.
When I was a kid and I first heard the song 76 Trombones in the musical Music Man, I imagined great phalanxes of marching trombone players followed by another block of 110 cornet players followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos.
I could see those powerful, majestic rows and rows of marchers in my head.
In the same way, I got that feeling of power marching forward as I read those majestic polysyllable words marching across the screen of my tablet.
Mathematically.
BAM
Geometrically.
BAM
Intellectually.
BAM
Ethically.
BAM
I am reminded of the scene in the movie Anatomy of a Murder where the Prosecutor yells, “Objection! His testimony is incompetent (bangs his hand on the table), hearsay (bangs his hand on the table), irrelevant (bangs his hand on the table), immaterial (bangs his hand on the table), inconclusive (bangs his hand on the table) …”
And Jimmy Stewart, the Defense Attorney, replies … “That’s too much for me. The witness is yours.”
What was funny is that they all fit into Mr. Forde’s argument.
Adding more teams to March Madness was wrong …
Mathematically – The number of teams did not work out so that every team played the same number of games.
Geometrically – 64 teams was the limit of the number of teams that could fit on a bracket THAT COULD BE PRINTED on a single piece of 11.5 by 8.5 paper (could there be a better reason).
Intellectually – It was an affront that the tournament needed fixing.
Ethically – the changes are suggested for all the wrong reasons of making money and displaying power rather than a move toward fairness on behalf of excluded teams.
Mr. Forde also writes that the planned expansion of the NCAA March Madness Tournament means that the powers-that-be in College Sports are standing in front of the Mona Lisa right now, ready to deface their masterpiece a little more.
Does that mean that a little bit of paint on the Mona Lisa would be acceptable?
live in the sunlight glad – know the day – that one might dream in the shadows
Adapted from: That One Might Live in the Sunlight Glad by William H.A. Moore as published in “The Crisis” 1910-1926
That one might live in the sunlight glad And know the day; That one might dream in the shadows And love alway. To love and to live and to know, To feel the sea’s strength and sea’s flow, That one might sleep while the heart is mad And sorrow play! that one might speak when the soul’s athirst And hear the cry; That one might feel when the heart has burst And love the why. O to speak and to feel and to know, O to love the wind’s strength and wind’s blow, That one might walk with the sorrows first, Nor weep, nor sigh! O to know and to love and to live, O to speak and hear and to give, Nor fear to die!
According to the short bio in The book of American Negro poetry (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922) edited by James Weldon Johnson (who, according to a note on the dust jacket, Compiled this work because it was his belief that a group of people is not known) William W. H . Moore was born in New York City and received his education in the public schools and at the City College. He also did some special work at Columbia University. He has had a long career as a newspaper man, working on both white and colored publications. He now lives in Chicago. He is the author of Dusk Songs, a volume of poems.
This snippet is the basis of any and every mention or biography of Mr. Moore in the online world.
I also came across one discussion of Mr. Moore where the someone posted that they had searched for Dusk Songs every where they could think of with no success.
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