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August 03, 2021

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6 UCW AUGUST 4-10, 2021 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM PITT DICKEY, Columnist. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomin- gweekly.com. 910-484-6200. Have you been wondering who wrote the Book of Love? You won't get that answer in this col- umn. Go find an old Monotones album and seek guidance there, Grasshopper. Today we are go- ing to explore the reasons that the world is going nutso. Which is admittedly a much easier topic to understand than the vagaries of sweet love. Let us consider the mystery of the Anti- Vaxxers. e Rona has come back with its new improved 2021 Delta model. None of that sissy Corona 19 stuff. is is the real thing. Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. It's Super Rona, a strange visitor from a Cootie planet which is killing Earthlings with powers and abilities far beyond those of mere mortal men. e Super Rona is able to change the course of mighty rivers, fill emergency rooms, hospitals and grave yards with its bare hands. e only thing that can defeat Super Rona is its version of Kryptonite, the mild-mannered Vaccines. Logic might appear to dictate that Americans would leap at the chance to get vaccinated but logic would be wrong. Tens of millions of Americans won't take the Vax, seemingly preferring death before inoculation. As the King of Siam said, "It is a puzzlement." e Vaccines were developed under the Former Guy's Presidency. Curiously the Vax Refuseniks tend to be die-hard Former Guy cult members. e Former Guy took the vax himself. He should get credit for developing it. He did good getting it up and ready. Logically his followers should be proud of what he did. ey should be first to get the vax to support the Former Guy, yet they are the last. We may be watching a national demonstration of Darwin's theory of Natural Selection taking place before our wondering eyes. For most of Biden's Presidency the Former Guy's political party and Tee Vee hosts have been playing the part of the Pied Piper lead- ing their followers into the Valley of Death by pretending the Rona was fake news or that Bill Gates was going to inject them with mind con- trol Triskets. Recently some of these same leaders began to realize that if their portion of the elector- ate doesn't get vaccinated, they will cross over the Great Divide before the mid-term elections leaving the Democrats in charge of Congress. Owning the Libs by filling graveyards with dis- believing Super Corona cult members is some- what counter intuitive. Dead Democrats do not lose their right to vote. ey will keep on voting. We shall learn if Dead Republicans forfeit their franchise if they keep refusing to get into the Vax lifeboats of the Titanic after it has struck the Super Rona iceberg. What could cause the puzzling behavior of the Former Guy's followers? Here are a couple of possible answers. e moon has been wobbling more than usual recently. We like to think the moon just peace- fully orbits around the Earth in a smooth oval orbit cycling through its orbit every 18.6 years. e moon just minds its own business, creating tides and rhyming in love songs with the month of June. However, as they say on late night TV in- formercials — BUT WAIT! e moon itself wob- bles. NASA released a new study that the moon's wobbling may lead to record high tides over the next decade. If the moon can screw up tides on Earth, imagine what it can do to the thought processes of the Anti-Vaxxers. Astronomers first noticed the moon's wobble back in 1728. Ponder all the craziness since 1728. e wobble could explain the current Anti-Vax sentiment. NASA recently discovered another distur- bance in the Force — Mars is older than Earth. e Mars Onsight Lander sitting on the Angry Red Planet is studying the guts of Mars. ink of Mars and Earth as giant gum balls. e outer part of the gum ball is the crust, which sits on top of the mantle layer. (Not to be con- fused with Mickey Mantle.) Below the mantle is the molten core of each planet — the center of the gum ball. Mars has a thicker crust than Earth. Its mantle is thinner than Earth's but its molten core is much larger than Earth's core. NASA says this means that Mars was formed millions of years before Earth when the gasses from the sun were still condensing into planets like Earth and Venus. e Onsight Lander has detected more than 700 Mars quakes since landing in 2019. ese Mars Quakes may have to power to cloud the minds of the Former Guy's followers convincing them that Death before Vaccination is the path best taken. Moon wobbles or Mars Quakes? Either one might be the reason for America's current so- journ into the Reality Distortion Field in which we find ourselves. If you were looking for a logical answer to an illogical situation, you have come to the wrong column. I cheerfully admit to being clueless. I can remember when polio was a thing. ey closed the movies, swimming pools, anywhere there were crowds. Iron lungs abounded. en the polio vaccine came along and polio went away. Vaccines work. Perhaps the Anti-Vaxxers would take the vac- cine if they were told it was made from the For- mer Guy's bath water. It's worth a shot. Maybe Sean Hannity can tell them to drink up. OPINION Welcome to the reality distortion field by PITT DICKEY Could an angry moon be the cause of recent bad behavior by Earthlings? Christian music station local your

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