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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, does not often get an opportunity to report that the keeper is put into a state of euphoria by something on TV, but it happened with the “Birds aren’t real” piece on 60-Minutes Sunday:
THERE IS HOPE!
Young people have taken the world of conspiracy theory to new heights with the revelation that the government has killed all the birds and replaced them with mechanical drones that perch on utility wires to get charged up so they can spy on the populace.
On the one hand, the keeper is tempted to join in the fun and claim that the house finches visiting his feeder have reported him to the IRS and he may now get audited; but he is hesitant to intrude into what seems to be a young people’s game of “Why in the name of all gods have abject stupidity and absurdity been allowed to assume dominant roles in the affairs of state and in the culture at large?”
What the hell is with a media that too often considers “truth-absurdity” as a two-way information street where it must apply the “fairness” doctrine and walk down the middle? That’s like saying, “It’s not okay to kill your mother, but on the other hand…..”
“Birds aren’t real,” but according to fed-up young people, they are now making the call: It is time to identify “dumb” for what it is and for how it is undermining the country’s basic collective decency.
GO, YOU HOUSE FINCH DRONES AND OTHERS!
