Forever
and a Memorial Day
I apologize for no cartoon last Friday (May 24) but Memorial
holiday weekend doin's intruded.
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Here's the thing about "forever chemicals"... they're in
our blood, they're potentially lethal and there's nothing
we can do about it. Go read about them now, just so you'll
understand the many devils in the details.
Yes, the manufacturers, mainly 3M, are
finally, after forty years, admitting culpability and vow
to make amends but the product is so deeply ingrained in
our
culture
(It's
in your dental floss, my dear dudes and dudettes, and the
military depends on it for a variety of destructive purposes) that
the best we can expect is a little molecular hanky-poo.
No more PFAS's, for example, but plenty of brand new PF(insert
random letter
here)S's
along with many future new and exciting side-effects to
discover.
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Here's an opinion I'm sure will arouse no controversy...
Memorial Day should only honor those American soldiers who
died in wars between 1863 and 1973 because those young
men had no choice but to fight for (insert socially-acceptable
reason here). After 1973 the U.S. military became an all-volunteer
affair
so those enlistees were mercenaries who knew what they were
getting into and did it willingly, for a paycheck, and maybe
a college education. Without or without all of their original
limbs.
Furthermore, to be honest, most major
U.S. conflicts after that were
resource wars (Vietnam was an oil war, too) so poisoning
the environment of our new adversaries with depleted uranium
slugs just so we
can
keep
the
Saudis happy and to save the American driver a few cents
on a gallon of gas isn't something we should celebrate.
-
Lefty
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