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Rolla Peace News November 27, 2018 |
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Dear Friends: http://tomsager.org/Peaceletters/peaceletter112718.html In this newsletter is: 1. NOON VIGIL FOR PEACE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 2. THE MISFIT MATHEMATICIAN (Tom's column, http://tomsager.org) a) From Our Readers: Dizzy Dean b) “All Is Calm” c) Heartless and Cruel d) Positively Biblical! 1. NOON VIGIL FOR PEACE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 We vigil for peace in front of the Rolla Post Office, THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, FROM NOON TO 1:00 PM (and most subsequent Thursdays until peace is established). Please try to join us. The temperature is predicted to be in the low 50s. If you do not feel comfortable standing with us in front of the Post Office, please consider driving by and showing your support for our message by honking your horn and flashing a peace sign. 2. THE MISFIT MATHEMATICIAN (Tom's column, http://tomsager.org) a) From Our Readers: Dizzy Dean b) “All Is Calm” c) Heartless and Cruel d) Positively Biblical! FROM OUR READERS: DIZZY DEAN It's been a long time since I've received multiple responses on the same snippet; but two readers wrote in that they liked the Dizzy Dean quotes. One reader thought that along with the Dean quote on statistics, I should have included this line that was popularized by Mark Twain and attributed to Benjamin Disraeli: The same reader also sent in two more great Dizzy Dean quotes: “It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.” and “Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?”“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Here's my favorite: “I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?” Dizzy Dean won 30 games for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1934. There has been only one major league 30-game winner since (Denny McLain in 1968). Rereading the snippet I wrote last week, it seemed to end too abruptly; so I reworked it. It's posted here. “ALL IS CALM” “All Is Calm,” a play about the 1914 Christmas truce on the Western front during World War I opens today at Cedar Street Playhouse and runs through Saturday, December 1. Extremely powerful statement on war and peace. Don't miss it! HEARTLESS AND CRUEL Donald Trump's border police fired tear gas rounds at the caravanistas, including young children and toddlers in their mother's arms. The caravanistas had trekked on foot all the way from Central America to our southern border to apply for asylum from the violence and poverty back home for which the United States is largely responsible. How heartless and cruel we have become! POSITIVELY BIBLICAL! I've reworked the image of Paradise, California burning that I had posted last week. It now includes a short quote from John Milton's “Paradise Lost.” While reading “Paradise Lost” looking for an appropriate line to include with the image, it struck me that the disasters we are experiencing today are positively biblical. I suspect if there is anyone alive a hundred years from now, they will be reciting ballads about how God punished the ancient inhabitants of the Earth for their arrogance, cruelty and selfishness. Rolla Peace News is distributed by email once a week on Tuesday evenings (except on rare occasions) and is posted on the web at http://tomsager.org (click on Grassroots Rolla: at the top of rightmost column). If you don't wish to get notices of peace events in the Rolla area, let me know and I'll take you off this list. If you want to be added to this list, let me know. Wage peace, Helen helenm (at) fidnet.com |