THE EVOLUTION OF MORONS

My youngest brother, Andy, the hero of Kimberly,sent me a cartoon today. It was entitled "The Evolution of Morons" and it showed a transition from the smallest of sea life to a human. I wish that I could say something other than RIGHT ON.

We are the only species that soils its own nest, and then has the audacity to make excuses and pretend that it didn't actually do it...or worse...that it doesn't matter.

When I was in Wisconsin visiting my family, BP got that cap onto the rig that had been spilling millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. I passed a USA TODAY headline that read "IS IT OVER?" My reaction was "ARE YOU NUTS?"

The ramifications of this latest oil disaster will impact the ecological as well as the economical viability of the gulf coast for years to come and, yet, people are so ready for it to be "OVER" just so that they can get back to their Walmart lives and not worry about it.

TIME is about to come out with a cover page minimizing this disaster...they have some scientists paid off by BP who are so very expertly telling the world that it won't be that bad. They are, of course, relying upon the surface of the waters, and negating the warnings of independent ecologists who have observed the underwater oil plumes and the effects of the massive dispersants that have been released into the waters. But, come on...it's on the cover of TIME so it must be true. Gee, wonder why I quit subscribing several years ago.

How long does everyone think we can go on paying off everyone in order to get away with unabated greed? What will it take, people? I understand that we can't transfer overnight to a perfect, green society but can we at least acknowledge that we have to do something???

And what of greed? I'm so sick of the philosophy of deregulation and libertarianism and no regulation, no government. Libertarians are nothing more than right wingers who want to smoke pot and be able to do whatever they want without repercussions. Talk about the everything for nothing crowd!! They want us to leave everyone who didn't have the fortune to be born into some semblance of wealth or means in the gutter.

The real irony is all the people who have bought into this crap. I look at the demonstrators with amazement. These people are jumping up and down to further their own demise and they don't even know it! They are advocating and voting against their own interests and they've been boondoggled by FOX, racism and too much time on their hands!

While I'm on my rant, why is it that the far right believe in SOCIAL Darwinism but not Darwin and evolution? Why is survival of the fittest okay if we make all non-wealthy, non-churchy, non conservative people serfs but the same theory doesn't apply to the rest of nature?

I am taking one of my trips down the "Tangential River." It's my own little river of digression, and you will often find me steamboating along to that destination until I realize that I've diverted. Who the Hell cares, it's my freaking blog! Back to the point.

We were given this incredible planet and mandated by God to be Stewards. By God. And, By God, we are not living up to the mandate.

"Whose garden was this? It must have been lovely. There must have been flowers. I've seen pictures of flowers and I'd love to have smelled one." Is this the legacy and the future you want for your children? Is money and profit and greed truly the only thing we have to hand down to our kids?

Think about what you can do to help us save ourselves. Otherwise, I agree with the cartoon. Fish don't soil their own habitat. Only we do. Wise up...for God's sake.