*Update* More dead red-wing black birds and starlings in Louisiana.
Maybe that is the headline we can expect to see in the future as Mother Nature “balances” itself. (Insert hysterical laughter sound track.)
So, what’s up with Arkansas? Has Bill Clinton been hanging around down there and has somehow caused these mysterious deaths of red-wing black birds and drum fish? I guess that would all depend on what the definition of “is” is. (insert hysterical laughter sound track)
In case you missed it, Arkansas has some unusual happenings going on down there. An estimated 3,000 black birds were found dead and scattered across about 1.5 square miles in a town called Beebe, northeast of Little Rock. Bill was nowhere to be seen. (insert short laugh sound track)
And if that wasn’t puzzling enough, 100,000 drum fish turned up, literally, dead on the Arkansas River in the northwestern part of the state. Both of these events have yet to be explained rationally.
Just maybe this is all part of that mythical precept that Nature balances itself out if man would just butt out. Maybe God woke up one morning and decided that there were too many red-wing black birds in Arkansas and took it upon himself to get rid of them. He can do that you know.
And if that wasn’t enough, God might have just decided he didn’t think there was enough oxygen to go around for all them fish and killed them too. There is hope.
Wolves may suddenly decide to jump off tall cliffs, falling to their deaths; polar bears may float away on ice floes never to be heard from again; hyenas may bite into a freshly killed antelope and inexplicably run full bore into an acacia tree; politicians may show up in Washington next week, walk into the Capital Building and never been seen again. (insert laughter sound track)
Nature balancing itself? (insert applause – that kind that sounds like they are glad to get this over with.)
Tom Remington
