Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for August 16, 2014

this actually is quite similar to the logic that the Number One Cause of Divorce is Marriage.

So true.

That’s why aardvarks don’t sit at the top of the food chain.

And with our numbers going up there’s only going to be only so much more needless death.

“Over the millenia well over a billion people have died in wars, both as combatants and as collateral deaths.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`Wow! Maybe war is Mother Nature’sbirth control…………..

@William Pursell: most animals kill their own kind without reason, right, or justification – as any aquarium keeper is aware. Dogs will sometimes kill each other on sight. Among metazoa mosquitos are the main killer, but until very recently microbes killed most people… dying of “fever” is the staple of early death through the ages.

Absolutely not true. Animals of all sorts kill each other.

The narrator of this humorous1975 piece should have kept his distance from the shark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzkq0VC_A8

“Aye spot on Wizard. Man IS the only creature walking this planet that kills his own kind and kills without reason,right, or justification.”.You’ve never watched a cat, have you?

Should have shown the wizard with a handgun.

A wizard? Ok, I’m getting the tin man, the cowardly lion, and the scarecrow….We’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz…

And then came antibiotics and more effective farming with good fertilizers.