Connections

So, here's the story.

Taking in the news of BLS, CDC, FDA, the rest of the Deep State, and Demented, Petty, Paranoid Dictator Don's assertion that he's a Smart Guy the meme (that I just coined, I do believe) "stupid people ain't got no reason to live" popped into my head. If you're old enough, you know that's not quite original to Me.

One Randy Newman (who I thought was dead; he ain't, I just read up his wiki page) had a minor hit with the song "Short People (Ain't Got No Reason to Live)", from 1977.

Further on, we find, from 1989

"Burn On", an ode to an infamous incident in which the heavily polluted Cuyahoga River literally caught fire.

This is some history of the river. And, a story about 1969 burning. Not the first, it turns out.

The Stokes brothers' advocacy played a part in the passage of the federal Clean Water Act of 1972. In Cleveland, a number of Cleveland State University students celebrated the inaugural Earth Day in 1970 by marching from campus to the river to protest pollution.

Can we expect Demented, Petty, Paranoid Dictator Don's EPA to be so woke? Not a bit of it. Remember: Demented, Petty, Paranoid Dictator Don is a smart person. He tells us so. So smart that he's smarter, in all areas of human endeavor, than anybody. That's why he has to, reluctantly, keep firing all these incompetents who doubt his agenda. The Smartest Person since Newton or da Vinci, either of which had (before Demented, Petty, Paranoid Dictator Don) the title of the last person to know everything.