Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Dancing In the Wind

The National Weather Service has predicted another active hurricane season, although not as bad as last year. There is a 64% chance that a major hurricane will hit the Atlantic coast or the Gulf coast sometime this year.

I predict that FEMA will be only marginally more prepared than last year.

I predict that the President will say all the politically correct things that his speech writers write for him, and that he will wonder, briefly, like a child, what it's all about.



William Butler Yeats

To a Child Dancing in the Wind

Dance there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water's roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind?