The Writer's Life 3/29 - Wind

There are several interesting items in today's NY Post: In an op-ed piece, Robert Bryce comments on the growing opposition to wind energy. Opponents cite visual blight, loss of property value, negative impact on tourism, and low frequency noise (infrasound) believed to be harmful, as drawbacks. Some turbines are half as tall as the Empire State Building. They require a lot of land, and kill a lot of birds. Bryce is not a climate change denier. He proposes more nuclear energy... Kudos to Sean "Diddy" Combs, 46, who has founded a charter school in Harlem, where he grew up... Elevated levels of lead in Newark public schools have prompted officials to shut off sinks and drinking fountains. Memo to kids: Drink soda, it's safer. Remember: "Things go better with coke." Besides, I own stock in it.

North Carolina and Syracuse, schools recently involved in scandal, have reached the Final Four. I guess it pays to cheat. Then again, major college basketball and football are largely sham. Many of the athletes have no business being anywhere near a campus.

On Gotham, Detective Jim Gordon, future police commissioner, has as many scandals on his ledger as Hillary Clinton. I hope there isn't an omen in that.

Last night on Scorpion, the team of geniuses tamed Mother Nature. Threatened by a cyclone that packed winds off the charts, they created dry ice and placed it at three intervals where it was sucked up by the huge twister, cooling it so that it slowed to a mere tropical storm. I wonder if the writers actually check the feasibility of what the crew pulls off each episode. Then again, it's just silly fun.

I wasn't optimistic about the prospects of the floating book shop today, as the wind was gusting, perhaps as high as 40 mph, as meteorologists predicted. I moved the operation leeward of a bus shelter, and the wares were secure. Unfortunately, high wind seems to be the biggest deterrent to sales. People just want to get home. My thanks to the old timer who bought Jeff Shaara's The Rising Tide, a WWII novel, the only sale of the day.

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