Friends

Friendships are wonderful things, and a good friend of mine said something that I'd like to share. He said that the way conservatives act and think is similar to the way the loyalists to England were during the revolutionary war, and liberals are equivalent to the minutemen of the same period. This is true, in my opinion, since a lot of Republicans believe the way they do just because of tradition, which, in and of itself is not a bad thing. However, when "the way things have always been done" doesn't jive with the natural progression of events over time, tradition should be thrown out the window. For instance! I was reading a chapter out of "Liars..." by Al Franken to my father the other day, and it was about hog farming, and feces lagoons. These lagoons are simply huge expanses of plastic that get filled with all the pig feces that are left over from the pigs. This is not such a bad thing when you have maybe 100 hogs. But, these days, there are corporate farms, which are known to have about 1/4 of a million hogs! When that many hogs are producing feces, there needs to be new ways of getting rid of it, instead of just putting into a big pile. Anyway, I'm ranting now, so please, any discussion is welcome.