Letters to the Editor
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BEST...CAROL...LAY...EVER
Best Salon comic ever too, perhaps.
I love you Carol! You are a true hero.
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Never Fear
The 1918 bird-flu epidemic had a fatality rate of 50% ....... victims died in a matter of days (not weeks from secondary infections) ......... frozen corpses in Alaska were recently exhumbed to isolate the virus and apparently it has recreated by the govt.
You really do not think they recreated this murdering monster for research's sake do you ?
When the population becomes a threat to the elite, they'll be wasted by the 100's of millions. So don't worry about it ...... sleep well tonight.
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Here's my solution for how we decide:
It seems to me that the main problem with our population dynamic is that we have mostly eliminated natural selection. Medicine and idiot-proof safety devices have saved countless lives, which is laudable, but they have also kept some of the slow swimmers in the gene pool.
My proposal is for a "three strikes and you're out" program. If you are saved from death by modern medicine three times (whether from illness, accident or sheer stupidity), you lose your right to reproduce.
If that plan doesn't work, we can just start eating poor people's babies.
And in response to mtgradwell: Yes, my parents did make a mistake in breeding, though thankfully I am an only child. A variety of physical ailments and depression make my life more unpleasant than not, and I can't claim to have made any redeeming contribution to the good of the world, other than tongue-in-cheek posts on internet comment boards.
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License to breed
I've long been an advocate of the idea that you should be required to raise a puppy to adulthood before you are allowed to have a child. If you can't pull that off adequately, then you in no way have the abilities needed to bring up a child decently.
Or: give everyone in the country half a license for a child. If you want to have one, you need to find someone with the other half who will share it with you. If you want two children, you'll have to buy a couple more half-licenses.
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CLASS-SELECTION MATING IS ALREADY DOING THIS DUBIOUS WORK
William Shakespeare- illiterate daughters.
Leonardo Da Vinci- Mother, Catarina was an asian slave
Thomas a Becket- Mother (or Grandmother)(Shusi Pye) was the daughter of a brutal, thoughtless moor.
Painter Frances Bacon, from the low life
ditto Caravaggio (Murder etc),Undercastes such as Piaf, Billy Holiday, Satchmo, Django et al.inspire us to this day.
Offspring of broken poet pairs, refugees, criminals of all type of mating couples, considered undesirable by the bourgeois fill up the Genius index.
Why not choose the couples who fail WayLay's test- iliminate the historical crop of Civic engineers and designers and politicians and birthright powers who have done such a shameful job of masterminding our "civilization".
Instead, breed the scum who deserve their turn at the rudder.
Give us some color and surprise- and maybe some unexpected genius!
A recent study (sorry no URL available) showed that the number one criterium for mate selection amoung self-described desirables was financial (classsss) security.
That Eugenics preferrables test? already in place and disfunctioning every bit as much as the rest of our misadventurous culture. For a close look- just go check out the dry-cleaned culture of stiffs in suits and skirts at your local upscale meet market watering holes or read through the singles market listings in the luxury consumption media.
Back when all marriages were assigned, this all went without saying- it was the parent (and tribe) who decided the match.
Things did not just go all wrong in the furure, Carol. The preference wickedness is only a part of historical mess in which our planet finds itself.
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There is a better answer than Eugenics.
Go with the flow of Carol's cartoon. Find something which renders every human being sterile, and then...do nothing.
The best thing for the planet and all the creatures on it would be for that nightmare known as homo sapiens to finally disappear completely, once and for all.
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Okay, Joe
You go first
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Sorry, Deke.
It's all or nothing. That's how it works.
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The American People .....
are fools. They have let all their power be taken away by a corrupt political system and private banks issue and control their currency.
This while they somnolize themselves on the teats of tv, ipods, video games, movies, suv's, xanax, prozac and hydrocodone.
They are shameless. They are sheep. They are lost.
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rrecroc and others: Your cynicism and pessimism demand a response!
Yes , the bread and circus malignancies by which the "sheep" are sickening and , presumably dying off are clearly expressions of the subconscious, pergative, suicidal desires of a sick culture on a wounded planet. The remedy is long.
U T O P C A L Y P S E
The combination of The Revelator's horsemen and beasts and antiChrists with the long-promised quiet after the cataclysm are in place for us few Cockroaches and refridgerator fungi to inherit. Been waiting already a long, long time.
But, rrecroc and others! McCain is clearly not the short term (or any term) solution. He knows absolutely NOTHING about any human-borne socio/environmental death wish. McCain's humanity is good and great so long as the fabulous leadership of the genius markets and their bosses in Capital and governance administer tax relief and fight endless wars.
Do you really believe in the worthlessness of humanity?
When you vote for McCain you perform the cynical act of selling out to the first stage of the Utopcalypse- the nasty part- the part where the rich keep on getting richer until the Bukowskis and the Vermeers and the Schuberts and the Hildegards are all dead awaiting their health insurance premium checks to clear so that some Suit can greenlight their emergency medical procedure or vital medication.
The Mayans went belly-up because of the insatiable desire of their regal class for temple plaster, cooked up by deforestating hardwoods into charcol by slaves.
The Greenland Vikings died off because of their inability to adapt to eating fish , instead of their imported cattle, again, the wealthiest survived longest because they owned the make-shift cathedrals in which the dwindling hoof-beef reserves were stashed.
The Romans- we already know too much about their well-deserved demise, but their barbarian sucessors ethnically cleansed and force-bred themselves out of civilization, too, unless you account for the Spanish and Italian football mastery and a few dada and cubist prophets.
Now comes the Adam Smith Civilization up to the lovers' leap platform. A clear and fat target. That kingly WTC was chosen by the Mohammed Atta gang not at all at random!
The PERCOLTE chemical in all that dryceaning for all those suits and skirts and all those gowns and golf togs- that PERC alone could be one of The Revelator's horsemen.
Preachers Hagge and Robertson say that the beast is €urope and a fresh Nutjob blog says that Senator Obama (D-Ill) is the Antichrist- then goes on to advise voting YOUR way, rrecroc (and others).
Yeah, only McCain can save us from Armaggedon (sp)Keep those suits in the other towers happy so we can save a few banks where a new generation of sharks may swim.
After the floods and cataclysms and birthrate declines.
Your McCain may well be the best way to depopulate a generation of young, brave soldiers and clean up that riff raff there on the bottom of the civilization scale.
Maybe the cockroaches and Fridgefungi can scoop up real estate bargains in McCain's Arizona Idyll.
U T O P I A indeed!