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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from having a needle poked into his eye as a sight preservation measure, marvels at the medical world’s discovery of such treatment; but his astonishment takes a back seat to the euphoria produced by the likes of Dr. Jim Allison who won the Nobel for his immunotherapy work in the cancer fight, and which recently gave Phyllis a new—”No Detectable Disease”–lease on life.
A PBS program about Allison’s dedication and perseverance was great TV viewing this week; and stuffed into a news cycle dominated by the Putin sponsored slaughter, it presented such a contrast in human behavior as to be unbelievable.
Even in the canine world, where wolf descendants range from teacup size lap dogs to huge, howling bear hounds does a species demonstrate such evolutionary dichotomy as humans do in the production of both unconscionable killers and saviors of humanity.
Videos of Putin’s wholesale bombing of occupied hospitals illustrates the ugly evolutionary heights of the Earth’s “most intelligent” human species.
Better to be a canine, the keeper suggests, a springer spaniel, maybe.
