Animal Farm

Orwell was right. The Animal Farm is trying to steal our souls. 

First it was the Avian flu.  Started by those devious chickens, passed onto like-minded migratory birds, the Avian Flu became the (mu)cause celebre of the CDC just a few years ago, spreading fear and a minor panic from China to Turkey. Every bird was suspect. People were killing chickens and foregoing the spicy Kung Pao. It almost got to the point where a bird dropping a load on the car was considered a death sentence, paint be damned.  

Now were are faced with another assault from the animal kingdom. This time it's the Swine Flu. Someone got a little to close to the little piggies down on the farm in Mexico (a suspected US owned company, no less) and now the world is in an uproar.  Pretty soon we'll be laying off the other white meat (Britany Spears) and be forced to start stewing the house pets. 

Hopefully, the collective wisdom of Science will get us out of this jam. 

If not, I'm moving to the sticks, someplace with a sordid history where people fear to tread, visitors are few and far between and the medical care is superb. 

I'm headin' to Neverland Ranch.