Thumbing off a booger, polyester pants, an impossible task. Consider the humble Kleenex, just a few cents for all that absorbent and useful goodness. A real bargain. All the little things that cost such small sums but make life better: the plastic spoon, straws, scotch tape, paper clips. Writing paper - once solely available to Kings for the King's important things, now cheap and readily available. A paper airplane, a child's toy - even the most impoverished child can have a paper airplane, just don't let the teacher catch you! Chewing gum, first made commercially successful by Santa Anna(sp), the Mexican General who defeated the Texans at the Alamo. Odd history, we are such a young nation - talk to some friends from INdia an ancient culture for a sense of perspective. BUt the youthfulness is what makes us special our roots have never fully set, we can and do change. No age-old system of castes, which though outlawed are still effective on the periphery of that society. Don't eat the cow, it is too expensive. You lose your polwing equipment your fertilzer spreader and your cheese machine, just for a steak - bad deal and stupid. meat based protien is the most expensive type. If you want to really help the environment and stop global warming, don't run out and buy a Prius, go vegetarian. It takes 50 lbs of vegatable protien to produce one pund of animal protein. It takes 5 acres of grassland to feed one cow, which will provide one big barbeque, butthat same acrage can feed a person for eternity. Di you ever notice just how nasty a 'meat' turd smells? Defintiley a differenet odor than veggie poops. Cow manure really does not stink bad, it does now becasue the hormones and crap that it stuffed into it to make the cows more 'productive' screw up the cow's system. I've been out on the wide open prairie watching bison. Their patties, even fresh ones, have an odor but not that commercial feedlot stench. You should avoid milk too. It aggravtes allergies and creates mucus that you can't thumb off.
