Did it ever occur to anyone that naming an insect a "stinkbug" might cause the little fellows an inferiority complex? At any rate, it hardly encourages pro-social behavior. Think about it: If you know that people will just call you "stinkbug" no matter what you do, what incentive would you have not to stink? Doesn't strike us as entomologically correct, is all we're saying.
But aside from that, what exactly is going on back East? We can hardly open a newspaper these days without reading about some new arthropodal nemesis. Bedbugs in Manhattan! Stinkbugs in Maryland! We fear tomorrow to hear of an infestation of Madagascar hissing cockroaches in downtown Charleston or a swarm of locusts eating the residents of a Palm Beach retirement community.
How has the West Coast managed to remain relatively pest free? Maybe all the anti-immigrant foofaraw in Arizona has discouraged them from heading this way. Thank heaven for small favors, but we don't think it'll last. There's an aphid in the corner, and he's looking at us funny.
(Image from the New York Times)
Bedbugs & Stinkbugs & whiskers on kittens (no, wait, that's wrong). Bedbugs & Stinkbugs on the east coast; Mel Gibson, Prop 8, Michael Bay, Lindsay Lohan, the "Real" Housewives of Beverly Hills, etc. You pays yer money... you takes yer cherce!
ReplyDeleteAt least we don't have Rev. Terry Jones.
ReplyDeleteYes, you do! LOOK IN THE CLOSET!!!!!!!! YAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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