New Orts #67

April 27 MMXXV

One Source of Bad Information

There's a boy in you about three
years old who hasn't learned a thing for thirty
Thousand years. Sometime it's a girl.

This child had to make up its mind
How to save you from death. He said things like:
“Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.”

You live with this child, but you don't know it.
You're in the office, yes, but live with this boy
At night. He's uninformed, but he does want

To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy
You survived a lot. He's got six big ideas.
Five don't work. Right now he's repeating them to you.

— Robert Bly, Morning Poems

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Let’s eat, mom!
Let’s eat mom!
Punctuation Saves Lives.

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Pork is so rooted in Chinese culture, cuisine and language that the Chinese character for home or family is a pig under a roof, and the word for meat — rou — is generally understood to mean pork. Guaranteeing supply of the meat is so politically important that the Chinese Communist Party even manages a “strategic pork reserve” to see the country through lean times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/18/us-china-pork-trade-war/

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