Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 16, 2010
November 15, 2010
November 17, 2010
Transcript:
Mike: Bedbugs? Are you sure? Kim: Positive! Look at the streaks on the sheets! This is a total nightmare! Mike: Well, that may be overstating it... Kim: Mike, we have 12 clients coming over for dinner! Mike: So! Do we have to tell them? Kim: Of course we do! You can't not warn guests if your house has bedbugs! Mike: How about if we eat in the garage? Kim: With the raccoon, rats and wasps? Think, Mike!
Hmmm… millions of humans dying of malnutrition or of malaria (not in the US of course, we can and do come up with alternatives), more pernicious than bird eggshells being too thin…Perhaps one might decide to think again. DDT had naught to do with malformed human babies. Thalidomide on the other hand (which of course is not an insecticide) was the cause of malformed babies. Don’t wanna be a JAD and go into the whole story, but here’s a link for some additional reading.
http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/05/human-health-effects-of-ddt.html
Raccoons are fun, unless of course they are rabid, which happens more often than most people know. Unfortunately, they are also quite destructive in their search for food in human developments