Trees Are Cool

Whatsamatter, you don't like trees? I thought that everybody liked trees! All kidding aside, you're right that corn is the priority crop on any land that will grow it on a commercial scale, although soybeans have become equally important in our lifetimes. Remember in "Atlas Shrugged" when the introduction of soybeans was supposed to be a commie plot to destroy the wheat growers of America? Well, that book was written way back in the 50s, and I guess some people believed that in those days. Since then soybeans have become as American as apple pie and they are commonly grown in rotation with corn. Of course, not all land and climates are suitable for crops like corn and soybeans. It's a good thing too, because we also need the other stuff like wheat, hay, and pasture. Trees are important too, but they are usually grown on land that's not suitable for food and fodder crops. Trees do things, it just takes them longer, that's all.

We have bobcats in Michigan, but they are reclusive and seldom seen by humans. If we have any lynxes, I'm sure they are confined to the U.P and not plentiful enough to hunt or trap. Of course, that's what they used to say about wolves until recently, so you never know. Rumors of cougar sightings around here were not taken seriously until a few years ago when, not far from here, somebody found some cougar poop and had it confirmed by DNA analysis. I think that all cats pee on stuff to mark it as theirs, at least the males do anyway. If this habit hurts their ability to hunt, I have never heard of it.

I was not trying to take sides in this killer cop controversy, I just wondered if the news media wasn't blowing it out of proportion. As I have said before, I believe that each case should be judged according to the facts and not people's social and political agendas. As for the protests, I think that America got all protested out during the 60s. Nowadays a protest is at least as likely to make people hostile to a cause as it is to make them sympathetic to it. Of course the actual riots don't do anybody any good.