Rural Sickos

When I look at the picture to the right, I see why there are so many folk songs about drownings, hangings, and other rather unpleasant activities associated with bucolic rural areas. You can get up to a whole lot of things in all that space. Why it's important to write a song about all of it, is somewhat a mystery. I would like to think that it is caused by winter, as are all bad things. Trapped indoors with a misbehaving mind can't be good for proper social conduct.

The scene to the right invites misconduct in a mind predisposed to such behavior. It is obviously a case for Physiognomy, since it should be clear to anyone that facial features predict people's character. Anyone who cares to can go to any public place and foresee who is a deer-jacker, or socialist by the shape of their nose or set of their lips. The eyebrows of pork producer and an accountant are never the same. All our public safety officers should be trained in the science of Physiognomy to save the taxpayers their precious wealth for things that matter like large screen TVs and boats.

So, in this winter of our discontent, we should remember those of us that are not facially challenged should remember how lucky we are. Please drive safely and remember to shop often.

Thanks from Street Level...