Behold The Lowly Chicken!
Wow, now it's Bird Flu. The fitting sequel to Mad Cow Disease of course. It's also the latest dire threat from our environment, which always seems to be looking for creative ways to do us in. It might be a fitting revenge for the chickens, what would we do without them? I eat pieces of them all the time. It's so convenient. There's an entire box full in my freezer (Banquet Crispy Chicken Variety Pack), and with a minimum of effort I can throw some segment of their anatomy into my microwave oven and soon be smearing my greasy hands everywhere as I consume. A virtual piece of paradise. Moreover, there is a lone chicken breast in a more pure (albeit frozen) state encased in a baggie also. I can thaw it out and cook it up with some brown rice and feel as though I am doing well for myself.

So we are met with another possible catastrophe as we attempt to pilot this fertile little planet into the future. There is always one just around the bend, isn't there? I bet there is a book entitled something like "The Coming Economic Collapse" for every decade that's behind us. I don't think a really bad one has happened since the Great Depression, although I do wonder about the effects of this deficit. I always heard that's a bad thing, but the sky's the limit apparently.

I've been waiting to live in some post-apocalyptic world for almost my whole life... something like those folks had to go through with Katrina, wandering around on pieces of broken highway and so on. I have also pondered what it would be like to catch one of those super-viruses. They can really tear you up. It's best not to think about it too much I reckon. Probably Alfred E. Neuman's question is appropriate once again. "What -- me worry?"