nope by Auden

A shilling life will give you all the facts:

How Father beat him ,how he ran away,

What were the struggles of his youth, what acts

Made him the greatest figure of his day:

Of how he fought, fished, hunted,worked all night,

Though giddy, climbed new mountains; named a sea:

Some of the last researchers even write

Love made him weep his pints like you and me.

With all his honours on, he sighed for one

Who,say astonished critics,lived at home ; 

From July 2013

  
I chose a Swedish contralto over a Kenyan American citizen last night so probably I'm echoing a million talking heads. But what else is new?

What  most interested me could be summarized as............

Obama's $10.10 wage proposal was a failure because.....(insert choice)

A. It will only be available to 200,000 (cruelly underpaid )workers says the FT' s   Robin Harding 

B. Obama's DOD budget can't afford the extra billion bucks.  Harding again.

C.John Boehner,in his own words

and snowy summits old in story

The long light shakes across the lake

And the wild cataract

Leaps to glory

........................................

Blow, bugle blow

Set the wild echoes flying

Answer echoes ,answer

dying

            dying                    

                              dying

Tennyson

Enjoy the holidays , whatever you call it.

Flavius