If you don’t like sewage, stop eating it.

If you don’t like sewage, stop eating it.

I don’t care, it takes sooo good.  Give me a steak anytime.  And BACON - how can you live without bacon?

Let’s take a look at hurricane Florence.  First Florence lost almost all of her wind.  Went from a 5 to a 1 by the time she made landfall.  So shore damage was pretty much .... not much.  But she brought rain and more rain and more rain and flooding and rain and flooding.  That means, of course, catastrophic damage to lives and homes.  Really awful.  Thoughts and prayers.

Now, what have we got?  When the area affected is one of major livestock producing areas in the country; mostly pigs and poultry (chickens), that is ... well, shit (?).  I’ve been a vegan for nearly a half century.  I’m not proselytizing vegetarianism or anti-meat either.  I really could not care less what anybody else eats.  Really could not care less.

But ...

When thousands of acres, most of an entire state is awash in pig and chicken shit, then I care.  I care a lot when giardia (sp) starts sinking into the water table .  When for decades, thousands of acres of woodland will stink like shit ALL THE TIME!  I care.  Then, then... I really DO mind it when "It tastes so good" ,,, etc......

You might bet bacon and nuggets (and BBQ wings WTF-ever), but out the other end, you get shit, and great heaping lots of it, and you gotta get rid of that shit somehow.  When you recycle it into feed and then refeed that feed to the bacon makers, you get "mad cow" and so on.  Or, you shovel it into landfills ... I dunno, but it doesn't just disappear.  Then a massive flood comes and whoopsy-daisey ?? now it's in the schoolyard.  Didn't see that coming' eh?  

Tofu, which can be prepared to taste delicious, is made from soy beans.  If you flood a few thousand acres of soy beans, you get ... maybe spoiled soy beans.  What you don’t get is contaminated water, sickness and disease for years and years.  Flooding can cost millions in spoiled crops in a plant based economy.  Flooding in pig and chicken economy costs that by a factor of ten, not to speak of the tortuous end for all those animals.  

I know most chickens can’t fly and I doubt they float very well either.  Pigs?? Forget it!  I’ve never seen a pig swim, but my guess they about as good at swimming as they are at flying.

The calamities we suffer are all the more egregious when they are the result of the calamities we actually cause.

To Our Friends In Russia

I just want to say to the Russian people, “As real Americans, most of us are your friends.  We are sorry you have such an evil oligarch as your leader and we have a thumping idiot for our leader (?)”.   At least your guy has an actual brain, ours seems to be working with a small bag of ingrown hair as cranial material.”

Yours has his crowd of other evil oligarchs and Mafia types, ours has his crowd of slobbering clowns.  So what are we gonna do?  We are all stuck on this slag of planet material, hurtling around a huge radioactive ball of flame.  I mean, really, none of us are gonna get out of this without some mutual effort.  

Much of our population speak only one language and many of us don’t bother to read anything in our own language.  Unless it’s on Social Media.  When I say, “Believe me, it’s always been pretty good living here.  We have two (2) styles of pizza (New York and Chicago).  You’d like it.  But, ya gotta help out and stop taking advantage of those of us who you would like, if we could actually meet.”

Resist Vlad, by helping us resist idiot Don-Don.  Honestly, where will you go if Vlad starts another pogrom?  I mean if these creeps in charge screw up everywhere else, you’re stuck.

Historically, we fought a war together as Allies and defeated the most evil man in history.  We can work together to get rid of these new “bad guys”.  If either one of them wins, we all loose - everywhere.

The Pursuit of Excellence Through Insanity

 The cover of my first ComicBook! The opening page and the back cover.  This book is available in any e-reader format AND hardcopy on Amazon Kindle.
Click Here for the hardcopy - $7.50, e-copy $2.99.

It’s not like ha-ha-ah funny, but it is kinda funny and the issues it deals with are pretty important.  (I think so, anyway).

I am going to just keep pluggin’ along.

There is a time for everything, according to some passage in the Bible, and a season ... and all that. ? ...  And, maybe if you miss the time that is supposed to be your time, you just loose out.  So maybe I just missed my time somehow.

 But, I have been hugely lucky in many ways in my life, wonderful children, great marriage; in the important ways in life - I have been hugely lucky.  As a person with whoah! Depression, I can only get up every morning and plod through each day and try my best to help out in whatever ways I can to make the world, as it were, better.

And, efforts like this comic book, are my way(s) of doing so.

So ... If you are or know of a person with a challenging Mental Health condition and, maybe, can help them in any way, please do so.  And, maybe, can support my efforts by supporting these efforts, with a purchase, please do so.  Send me your email address and I’ll send you the next volume for free.

Okidoke?  Love y’all - as we say in Virginia.

Dale