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Deer God
I'm never one who shies away from admitting a mistake (on the rare occasion when I actually make one). My first reaction is to look for accomplices to my unwitting crime, but I ultimately plead guilty and beg the moot court du jour for mercy.
This brings us to a mistake to which I plead guilty, albeit with an explanation.
A recent column (Dec. 22) referred to the upcoming deer kill in the Norristown Farm Park and I wrote that it was going to happen Jan. 13.
As a concerned reader pointed out, it is not Jan. 13. I was off by a number, taking the steam out of my one-liner about giving the "hunters" Viagra with instructions to call a pretty nurse if a certain something last more than four hours.
Sadly, no pill - or monkey - is going to stop this horror show. These guys get high on the thrill of the kill. This tragic event is slated for Jan. 23.
The reader didn't want these fools reading my column and showing up in their dopey camouflage Halloween costumes on the wrong day. These predisposes that they not only read my column, which I doubt, but that they even read at all.
Maybe I'm being a little harsh, I don't know. What I do know is that a lot of these hunter types will not be showing up Jan. 23 to act out of any sort of civic responsibility to eradicate the park of a perceived surplus of harmless deer.
They like killing other creatures and hanging their heads on the wall. That's where the story ends. It's as short as the children's books I read to my daughter.
Between this mentality and views that equate to letting the polar bears drawn and the primates in Africa die, I wonder if my children's children will grow up on a planet shared only by dogs and cats (there are plenty of extras being euthanized each day at shelters, if anyone cares to adopt) and these annoying "stink" bugs that seem to flock to my house the way hippies did to Woodstock.
There is a big picture. Let's take the time to see it.
I'm sorry for the mistake, but even sorrier for the situation - one rubber-stamped by the Montco powers that be trying to appeal to a perceived base the way that John Kerry did when he played the fool as a stalker of geese.
This brings us to a mistake to which I plead guilty, albeit with an explanation.
A recent column (Dec. 22) referred to the upcoming deer kill in the Norristown Farm Park and I wrote that it was going to happen Jan. 13.
As a concerned reader pointed out, it is not Jan. 13. I was off by a number, taking the steam out of my one-liner about giving the "hunters" Viagra with instructions to call a pretty nurse if a certain something last more than four hours.
Sadly, no pill - or monkey - is going to stop this horror show. These guys get high on the thrill of the kill. This tragic event is slated for Jan. 23.
The reader didn't want these fools reading my column and showing up in their dopey camouflage Halloween costumes on the wrong day. These predisposes that they not only read my column, which I doubt, but that they even read at all.
Maybe I'm being a little harsh, I don't know. What I do know is that a lot of these hunter types will not be showing up Jan. 23 to act out of any sort of civic responsibility to eradicate the park of a perceived surplus of harmless deer.
They like killing other creatures and hanging their heads on the wall. That's where the story ends. It's as short as the children's books I read to my daughter.
Between this mentality and views that equate to letting the polar bears drawn and the primates in Africa die, I wonder if my children's children will grow up on a planet shared only by dogs and cats (there are plenty of extras being euthanized each day at shelters, if anyone cares to adopt) and these annoying "stink" bugs that seem to flock to my house the way hippies did to Woodstock.
There is a big picture. Let's take the time to see it.
I'm sorry for the mistake, but even sorrier for the situation - one rubber-stamped by the Montco powers that be trying to appeal to a perceived base the way that John Kerry did when he played the fool as a stalker of geese.
posted by Gordon Glantz at
8:31 AM
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