Light On Dark Water

W.E.B. Du Bois Would Have Loved This

Yes, as I was saying, our racial problems are serious. But this scene is a nice reminder of how much things have improved. It could not have taken place fifty years ago. 

http://vp.mgnetwork.net/viewer.swf?u=98ca54682581102faba2001ec92a4a0d&z=KRG&embed_player=1

Alan Sealls is a local meteorologist whom I call the prince of weathermen–he's tremendously knowledgeable, and has this infectious enthusiasm for the subject. You can tell he is just utterly fascinated by it, and he makes you feel that way. I rarely see him on TV, but he's one of a rotating series of weather commentators in the local paper, and I always read his pieces, because there's always something interesting in them beyond the forecast.

Maclin Horton
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8 responses to “W.E.B. Du Bois Would Have Loved This”

  1. Mac

    For instance, yesterday I learned the record duration for a tropical storm: four weeks. Unfortunately he didn’t include the name of the storm.

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  2. Janet

    San Ciriaco
    AMDG

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  3. Mac

    Thank you. You just happened to know that, right? 🙂

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  4. Janet

    You knew somebody would do that, didn’t you?
    AMDG

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  5. Louise

    How delightful. I’m just going by your description, Maclin, b/c I haven’t watched the clip yet, but I love how you say his enthusiasm makes you interested in his subject. I love it when human beings are like this. When we’re good, we’re very very good.
    Considering how delightful goodness is (for example, when a knowledgable man shares his passion with others) it really is a wonder that we ever bother with evil.

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  6. Mac

    It’ll make you even happier when/if you watch the clip. It’s less than a minute long, so no big investment is required. It’s just a few vignettes–unfortunately you don’t get to hear him explain what he’s doing.
    Simone Weil has a great observation about how (very crudely paraphrasing) fictional evil is more exciting than fictional good, but real good is more exciting than real evil.

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  7. Mac

    Janet, actually, no, I didn’t expect anybody to come up with that. I hadn’t bothered (or had time) to look for myself.

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  8. Louise

    yeah – just watched it – that was uplifting 🙂

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