tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post8949206444594899405..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Somebody's Backyardhederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-63095064561837388222010-04-23T12:46:57.775-07:002010-04-23T12:46:57.775-07:00Cockroaches. Maybe they're not so bad after a...Cockroaches. Maybe they're not so bad after all. They eat what we leave around or spill in the corner. I've never heard of cockroaches biting people, or carrying disease. But I suppose they're technically unsanitary.<br /><br />"Not in my backyard" is a nice bit of privilege. Republicans have always liked starting new communities, new homes, new roads, new shopping centers. New water lines, new sewer lines, new garbage dumps, new police departments handing out big parking tickets. Check out those instant new communities in Utah and Colorado and Arizona. The people who live in them have "escaped" from the problems of the cities, from the nasty, dirty, unsightly fuss and muss of a decaying, formerly "new" culture. <br /><br />But the new hygienic culture is just as dirty and corrupt and inconvenient as the old one--it just has a new coat of paint. <br /><br />Pollution has overtaken us. But people are stupid. The only thing that will get their attention is disease and death, and those will surely follow if we keep traveling down the road we're presently on. What happens to all those gulf shrimp if we spill oil on their spawning beds? Not good for those New Orleans restaurant menus, that's for sure.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com