With all the shouting about adding an image of President Trump to Mount Rushmore, I must admit the wrong thing stood out for me in this paragraph:<\/p>\n
After all, the president had\u00a0told [Governor Noem of South Dakota]<\/a> in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on the monument. And last year, a White House aide reached out to the governor\u2019s office with a question, according to a Republican official familiar with the conversation: What\u2019s the process to add additional presidents to Mount Rushmore?\u00a0[The New York Times<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Forgive my lack of focus, but I’ve been out to Mount Rushmore – twice – and you do not etch<\/em> into that big pile of rock. Etching is what you do to make microchips and decorate watches and rings. When you’re dealing with a mountaintop, your tools are more along the lines of dynamite, hammer and chisel, and Bobcats.<\/p>\n
This is not etching.<\/strong><\/p>\n
So, it’s bad, bad word usage about adding a face in travesty to a national monument which in turn is a defacement of a holy American Indian mountain.<\/p>\n
Gad. It’s like the nuclear cherry on top of the arsenic ice cream mound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With all the shouting about adding an image of President Trump to Mount Rushmore, I must admit the wrong thing stood out for me in this paragraph: After all, the president had\u00a0told [Governor Noem of South Dakota] in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on \u2026 Continue reading