This fall I wrote a review of a very intriguing book published by the Cato Institute called Super-abundance. Authors Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley set out to prove that more people leads to having more stuff. You don’t need Plato or Aristotle to refute this. Any three-year-old on any playground anywhere will assure you they are wrong. But us grown-ups have to use words like counterintuitive and prove it. With illustrations.
So Thursday I stopped at the hog confinement building just west of town as they were pumping it out. I took a couple pictures and a young man came running over, started calling me demeaning names, demanded my phone, and told me I was in violation of the law taking pictures of an agriculture installation. If I am not mistaken a judge found that law an illegal violation of the people’s right to know.
I called him demeaning names in return, refused to give him my phone and left. Still, sticking his hand in front of my camera takes a lot of gall—especially in view of the fact that agriculture one of the most heavily tax-subsidized industries in this country. Thanks especially to the Grassley dynasty.
As the crops are mostly out of the fields, the honey wagons and nitro tankers are rolling and so is the offal down the Mississippi to the hypoxic, dead zone in the Gulf. But of course, I can sit on my front porch and watch them fly by there and take pix whenever I have a little spare time.
Happy Thanksgiving. I will post a link to the review when it is published.
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