[OFB Cafe] Hicks and City Slickehs

[Derek Broughton]

On July 17, 2008 15:02:13 Chris Olson wrote:

> This planet needs a cleansing - I keep hoping for some sort of plague to
> set in and wipe out all the City Slickehs so we can dismantle their huge
> pollution-generating concrete jungles and return the land to something more
> productive. 

I still have high hopes for influenza - though the H5N1 Avian Flu is far more 
hype than horror.  Global Warming seems too slow to do the job.

> When I'm on the Mississippi after a rain storm and watch the 
> sewer water that drains off the streets of Minneapolis/St. Paul - polluted
> with oil, rubber and exhaust residue from cars, pieces of paper and other
> garbage - drain right into the Mississippi out of big pipes, it pisses me
> off so bad that I'd be all for pressing the Big Red Button and simply level
> and vaporize the whole affair with a 500 megaton nuclear device.  These
> City Slickehs live in their concrete jungles thinking they're the most
> important people on earth, while those of us who grow their food have to
> put up and deal with their swill holes they create.  City Slickehs, in my
> book, are one of the lowest and most despicable life-forms on earth. --

otoh, I can't see how you've done anything but transfer the consumer society 
to the boondocks.
-- 
derek