tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post3750340226043588605..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Dripped Viscous StalactitesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-63414139534483673762020-09-11T09:13:22.729-04:002020-09-11T09:13:22.729-04:00Election Day, November, 1884
Walt Whitman - 1819-...<b>Election Day, November, 1884</b><br /><br />Walt Whitman - 1819-1892<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,<br />'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,<br />Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,<br />Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes—nor Mississippi's stream:<br />—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,<br />(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)<br />The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,<br />The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,<br />The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict,<br />Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all,<br />Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross:<br />—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:<br />These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,<br />Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-23540916137034474932020-09-10T08:31:16.113-04:002020-09-10T08:31:16.113-04:00more cud to chew - about the 78 days between elect...more cud to chew - about the 78 days between election day and the inauguration<br /><br />https://prospect.org/politics/winter-of-our-discontent-trump-2020-election/mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-30577906891169333152020-09-09T13:57:41.725-04:002020-09-09T13:57:41.725-04:00damon linker also has views
https://theweek.com/a...damon linker also has views<br /><br />https://theweek.com/articles/936289/true-election-day-nightmare-scenariomistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-51611343079571404872020-09-09T12:04:37.195-04:002020-09-09T12:04:37.195-04:00originally from the ny times - now at a non-paywal...originally from the ny times - now at a non-paywalled page - the hypothesizers include a professor of law and computer science who researches voting system security<br /><br />https://dnyuz.com/2020/09/09/seven-election-day-nightmares/<br /><br />mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.com