There's been a ton of debate recently about potentially having moss at ground zero. Some folks are up in arms about it and some say that moss at ground zero proves how tolerant we can be. I thought it was time for Steel City Slant to weigh in on this subject.
I am firmly in the corner of Roberto "No Moss" Duran. I try to be an equal opportunist with horticulture but eff me moss is annoying. My yard has numerous mature trees providing plenty of summer shade, but it also provides optimal growing conditions for moss on my not so flat paver patio....and let me tell you something, moss is as slippery as owl shit when it's wet. Little patches of moss sprout up all the time on my patio. You know what I do to them? I kill those bastards. I don't use the wimpy "Round-Up" made for dandelions either. I use poison ivy and small brush killer. I don't use a single spray either. I apply the killing agent liberally. After I'm done with a round of moss killing, there's no doubt in my mind they'll dry up into a yellowish brown mess and turn to dust in a week which can easily be swept away.
I don't know why people think it's OK for moss to grow at ground zero. One summer I didn't keep the moss under control and it just spread and spread all over my property. I had a hell of a time beating it back once I realized what was going on. I think ground zero should be kept as sterile as possible. Heck, if moss starts growing there, you could have anti-moss types protesting every day. That would make it uncomfortable for folks who just want to go and pay their respects to the innocent people who lost their lives there that day. I used to walk to lunch down a street that had a Jewish business on one side and a Palestinian one on the other. For a year straight there were protesters on both sides of the street shouting and yelling insults back and forth at each other. We can't have that at ground zero.
The prediction I'll make is this, if moss starts growing there it won't be long before commercial weed control trucks start showing up trying to kill it. Is it idealistically wrong to not want moss at ground zero? Probably, yes. Do I want moss at ground zero? No. Hell no.
5 comments:
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Roberto Duran's first nickname was "Hands of Stone" so it's reasonable he'd want "no moss" on his hands of stone.
Use the Gold Round-up that stuff kills anything, poison ivy and brush included. If it had been available in 1963 it would have been part of the "who killed John Kennedy" discussion.
Once they build that moss at Groud Zero NYC (not the Blues Club of the same name in Clarksdale, MS) those Palestinians and Jews in Philly are gonna seem like small potatoes to what the New York Jews and Muslims are going to do!! Do you realize how many Jews who worked for Morgan Stanley alone died in 9/11?
Maybe Darrelle Revis can "plant" Randy Moss at Ground Zero NYC and be done with it. That is if they ever give him enough money to entice him to play again. I hear Revis Island can use a little vegetation itself. Can never have enough green.
The reason for the protests is that Ground Zero was the site of moss murder. To add more moss to the site would be disrespectful.
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