like a monogrammed silk handkerchief
folded in half, folded again,
slipped into a drawstring jewelry bag
and slid to the back of the top dresser drawer
or a wedding band and a locket
set inside a small sandalwood box,
brought home from Agra, there on the end table
next to the bedside lamp
mine, a rucksack weighted
with old journals and utility
dinnerware and two
steel coffee mugs and hanging from a hook next to the back door
Lyman 2022
Fastest Growing Counties by % (2010-2020)
53.4 Hays, TX (Austin Metro)
50.7 Dallas, IA (Des Moines-Ames area)
48.9 Comal, TX (San Antonio Metro)
45.4 Lincoln, SD (Sioux Falls area)
44.7 Osceola, FL (Orlando Metro)
44.1 Williamson, TX (Austin Metro)
43.9 Saint Johns, FL (Jacksonville Metro)
43.2 Forsyth, GA (Atlanta Metro)
41.0 Madison, ID (Idaho Falls-Pocatello area)
40.6 Fort Bend, TX (Houston Metro)
40.6 Kaufman, TX (Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro)
38.9 Sumter, FL (Orlando Metro)
37.6 Rockwall, TX (Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro)
36.8 Walton, FL (Panhandle Gulf coastline)
36.8 Denton, TX (Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro)
36.1 Collin, TX (Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro)
36.1 Montogomery, TX (Houston Metro)
35.2 Williamson, TN (Nashville Metro)
34.8 Loudoun, VA (DC Metro)
33.6 Canadian, OK (Oklahoma City Metro)
32.9 Gallatin, MT (Butte-Bozeman-Helena area)
Answer in complete sentences. Puffery, platitudes, and personal attacks will result in significant score deductions. Lying will disqualify you from holding public office.* Be an adult.
1. Explain why voters older than 60 should or should not vote for you. (10)
2. Explain why voters under 30 should or should not vote for you. (10)
3. Explain why voters in the upper income quintile should or should not vote for you. (10)
4. Explain why voters in the lower income quintile should or should not vote for you. (10)
5. Discuss both pros and cons of term limits for senators and representatives. (10)
6. Explain why business owners should or should not vote for you. (10)
7. Explain why workers, employees, or labor should or should not vote for you. (10)
8. Give one specific piece of legislation you intend to offer. (10)
9. Which constitutional amendment do you believe needs revision, or what constitutional amendment do you believe should be added. Explain. (10)
10. What organization is your largest campaign donor? Explain why that donation would be made to your campaign. (10)
*No, I am not really that naive.
First let me apologize for translation errors. Between online translators and, well, my knowledge of French--which is, frankly, tres terrible. Tres, tres terrible.
"...[And] Publius Servilius Casca Longus, as is well-known, was able in the marketplace just one hour before meeting with the conspirators to buy the dagger he would use to attack Caesar.
"Cicero is rumored to have observed, 'It was not the daggers that killed mighty Caesar, it was men'."
"In 1218, Simon de Monfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, had his skull smashed from a stone hurled by a mangonel, or traction trebuchet, at the Battle of Toulouse.
"An Occitan historian suggested the earl was not given a head's up about the weapons inside the city during his siege.
"Perhaps, according to the Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise, it was not the stone nor trebuchet that killed de Monfort, but the 'ladies and girls and women' of Toulouse who launched the stone."
"On June 28th, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand or Austria was fatally shot in the neck by 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, who wielded a pocket-sized FN Model 1910 loaded with a .380 ACP cartridge designed by the Colt's Manufacturing Company.
"A Sarajevo commentator may or may not have noted how the Archduke's death was not the result of a bullet wound but rather of the man who fired the shot.
"Princip was given a 20-year-sentence because of his youth. He died in prison at 23 from tuberculosis. Of course, it was not the tb that killed him, it was the prison sentence."
I apologize for getting wrong what may be gotten wrong, or something to that effect. But at the very least, apparently, plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
