Posted on 07/17/2019 9:13:49 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Ahh, I thought she was wrapping her head in toilet paper.
I like to give credit where credit is due. Solomon is more than just an opinion contributor.
https://thehill.com/contact/about-us
Executive Vice President, Digital Video
John Solomon
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/hill-media-bias
“The Hill media bias rating is Center.
AllSides rates The Hill’s coverage of Washington news as center biased.
This rating is consistent with the website’s aim of offering non-partisan and objective coverage of the capitol.
Out of more than 300 community members, a slim majority agreed with our center AllSides Bias Rating™.
Among 11 of those who disagreed, The Hill received an average bias rating of 40.9,
barely inside the boundary between a center and a lean right bias.”
My own opinion is that they are somewhat left of center.
They are a leftwing rag.
- YEAH, I SAID IT!
Stick and stones...
by Mike Conklin | 07/08/2009
http://www.thelmagazine.com/2009/07/maya-angelou-sucks-at-poetry/
About yesterday’s Michael Jackson memorial service:
The day’s worst offender wasn’t even there in person. Queen Latifah read a poem by Maya Angelou, written specifically for the occasion, and it was embarrassing—full of juvenile truisms and overused devices.
Full text, courtesy of MTV:
Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing, now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind.
Without notice, our dear love can escape our doting embrace. Sing our songs among the stars and walk our dances across the face of the moon.
In the instant that Michael is gone, we know nothing. No clocks can tell time. No oceans can rush our tides with the abrupt absence of our treasure.
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone.
Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him.
He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance.
Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that.
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.
We had him, beautiful, delighting our eyes.
His hat, aslant over his brow, and took a pose on his toes for all of us.
And we laughed and stomped our feet for him.
We were enchanted with his passion because he held nothing. He gave us all he had been given.
Today in Tokyo, beneath the Eiffel Tower, in Ghana’s Black Star Square.
In Johannesburg and Pittsburgh, in Birmingham, Alabama, and Birmingham, England
We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world.
Patty Hearst
Heard the burst
Of a Roland's Thompson gun, and bought it.
Oh God! Three words come to mind after reading Maya’s mussings: Trite, Tedious & Saccharine.
Sort of a paint by numbers for free association prose.
You almost can’t do it wrong.
Beyoncé’s New Feminist Fragrance Was Inspired by Her Favorite Maya Angelou Poem
By Kathleen Hou DEC. 20, 2013
https://www.thecut.com/2013/12/beyoncs-new-fragrance-inspired-by-maya-angelou.html
It’s only been a week since we got her surprise Christmas gift, but Beyoncé will soon give us more. She’s releasing a third fragrance, called Rise, WWD reports. The best part, of course, is that it was apparently inspired by her favorite Maya Angelou poem (presumably, “Still I Rise”).
“There’s a strong sense of ‘overcoming adversity and rising above it all,’” Marsha Brooks, vice president of global marketing for Coty (the license holder for Beyoncé’s fragrance business) told WWD of the scent. “The fragrance concept is a about female empowerment [sic] and finding the inner strength that makes women so beautiful.” If her sample of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TedX talk “We Should All Be Feminists” in the song “***Flawless” wasn’t enough, consider this a pleasantly scented, olfactory shutdown of critics questioning her feminist motives.
So what does feminism smell like? The fragrance’s main note is gold symphony orchid, known as “the queen of orchids” — of course — complemented by notes of golden apricot, jasmine, freesia, Italian bergamot, and something called an “iced basil sorbet.” (Which must be vegan?) Then, there are more masculine notes, such as autumn woods, cashmere (again, of course!), musk, and vetiver extract. Feminism is often associated with tired tropes, but Beyoncé’s vision of sassy hair-flipping, Maya Angelou-reading perfume sounds (and will surely smell) pretty good.
Give me a break! Another example of B.S. Jambalaya, but w/o the filet gumbo. She, Beyonce is an “Oprah” like symbol for her generation of women. But she communicates through her songs and videos. The real Beyonce is a fine entertainer, but not that bright. Have you ever heard her speak during an interview? Sort of like a trained race horse or an Empty Vessel.
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