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?
