No Such Thing as Free Range
We’re blowing through this decade. I had expected more from time. I got this instead.
Doorbell rings…
“Who’s there?”
“It’s me, 2020.”
“You mean like perfect vision twenty-twenty?”
“I mean like Mother Nature-Father Time.”
“Go away…”
Only going to take about two years.
I’ve got an idea for a new villain. Going to pin some evil doing on cattlemen intent on cutting down more pinion pine trees to make way for more forage for their herds.
Pine nuts sell for $40 a pound last time I checked. Steak sells for less, when consumed as directed puts users on a path for cardiovascular disease and heart attacks.
Oldest Trees in the World are Located in Nevada
Got a pretty good rotten no good miserable group of folk that come hell or low water are intent on growing more meat and to do that want to clear out one of the most precious tree’s in the world.
Range in Nevada is a tangle of confused interests. Government doles out grazing rights. Cattlemen bitch about their allotment. Federal land is in theory about multiple uses. Cattlemen believe otherwise.
I’d say I’ve got a pretty good villain. Stripping trees out of the landscape, cow pies everywhere, stubborn mind’s made-up don’t get in my way or I’ll carve your heart right out of the center of your chest and feed it to the vulture types wearing spurs and kicking an old Ford pickup truck around.
Hard not to laugh and cry at this tragedy of ranching overreach.
That’s the plan. A comedy with a good rotten no good bottom feeding villainous bunch of free grazers running roughshod over the landscape.
Happy New Year
