Guitars continue to weep . . .
It's Freya's Day.
In the back of the mailbox, two items from May 5th were found in the corner, left by the Watercourse:
The giant seaweed blob making headlines recently has finally reached U.S. shores—in Key West, Florida, with more than 13 million tons of sargassum floating in a blob twice the width of the continental United States. When this seaweed hits the beaches and begins to decompose, it releases hydrogen sulfide which not only smells bad but can also cause health issues for the humans and marine life around it, not to mention the economic costs brought by it.
And, The U.S. Supreme Court on May 5th removed federal protection from half of the currently protected wetlands in the U.S, an area larger than California.
Of note today:
The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in 1922 Washington, DC.
Nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc was burned at the stake on this day in 1431, ordered by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France during the Hundred Years' War.
The Beatles began recording “The White Album” on this date in 1968 at the Apple studio in London.
It’s time to grant 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote. As I write this morning, millions of young people are working and paying taxes on every paycheck they earn. They’re watching as decisions that affect their schools, their communities, and their futures are being made without their input, despite having just as much knowledge about our political system as 18-year-olds (or older!) do. That is taxation without representation – a continuing hallmark of our “democracy.” The fact that their brains are still developing is not an argument — that is a “red herring.” A significant number of our population have brains they don’t use.