We also held the first walkout at our school, spring of ’67, after a classmate was suspended the day before finals for smoking. I was on yearbook staff, and, when someone suggested we do one of those “Most Likely” and “Best Whatever” features, we shot it down immediately as catty and pointless, though we kept the “Class Will” and “Prophecy,” in which every senior got an affectionate mention.
We did have prom court, but our King and Queen were not the usual “popular couple” but, rather, two people we really liked and admired, and I don’t know how well they even knew each other, though it was a small school. Zits (KFS) offered another trip back, past freshman year and into high school, and a reminder that my class, for some reason, was ahead of the curve. I have seen no evidence that my dog cares about cold weather at all, but she’s got a nice hunter-plaid coat she can wear when it’s in the single digits, not because she wants it but because other people will nag me about letting her run nekkid in the snow. It reminds me of college, and the freshmen from California and Florida who pile on all their cold-weather gear at the first frost, thinking this is the harsh winter they were warned about. I will, however, spare a smile for the pup in this Half-Full, because the first day of cool weather here brought out a few dog jackets.
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, To gild refined Gold, to paint the Lilly To which I will add that people who use filters on their foliage photos are not simply fakers but philistines. Shifting our own path to less parlous things, Non Sequitur offers a preview of the upcoming fall season, though I don’t have a favorite color, and, in fact, take particular pleasure in the mix, having lived nearly 20 years out in Colorado where the aspen turns golden and that’s all you get. We’ll deal with Ian the old-fashioned way, thanks. Though perhaps not by dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes, no. So I like Joe Heller’s take, because, while the project was theoretical in nature, it’s also practical evidence that (A) we can worry about more than one thing at a time and (B) we could be doing more to save the planet from other threats. What went on in space the other day was theoretical science directed at a very practical goal. The damage and injuries were bad enough, and might be worse the next time. I don’t object to science for science’s sake, but I also remember when an asteroid-turned-meteor burst in the atmosphere over Cheyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. Over a couple of parsecs, the math becomes mind-boggling, but the potential is reassuring, or should be. I suppose GPS has changed this, but hiking with a compass once drove home the potential value in making a slight change in an asteroid’s pathway, because even in a hike of five miles, getting just a tiny bit off can utterly change where you end up. Joel Pett seems to be reaching, since all the Dart did was make a very minor shift in the asteroid’s orbit and we’re going to need a much more substantive change of direction if we hope to challenge the rise of fascism. I think the last time I heard that question, the answers began with Tang, but quickly expanded to a list of far more substantive scientific developments spawned from NASA projects.Īnd Tang wasn’t really created for the space program after all. I was also surprised that several cartoonists, including Kevin Necessary, greeted it with a “Why are we doing that?” response. I was surprised that NASA’s asteroid deflection drew so much attention, since they’ve been talking about it for several years. A bit of politics before we go for the laughs.
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