Taking a lesson from snakes

I don’t have a blog, but good snakes and bad snakes have dominated our family discussion of late. We may have a copperhead at Fort Sutton. I can (a) take some of my black snakes over, or (b) move the lumber pile and shoot  the copperhead with a .22 snake-shot load. My sweet daughter-in-law will want (b), so (b) it will be.

As a footnote of deep thought, and a life lesson, after hearing the news of murder rates up 60 percent in Baltimore, I look to nature for this conclusion: Arresting cops for trying to do their job, albeit  imperfectly, is like killing black and king snakes. If you don’t have law/nature’s enforcement, you may end up with a lot of dangerous species taking their place. It’s only natural.

— Hal Sutton

Rockwell

Rhyme & reason

Regarding R. Howard Andrews’ May 28 comments on evolution:

I am glad you have all of the correct information. There’s one thing I just don’t understand; maybe you can help me.

Once you were a tadpole, small and thin, and now you are a frog with your tail tucked in, and now you’re a monkey up in a banana tree, and now you’re a professor with a Ph.D.

You’re on the money; you have all the facts. May the force be with you.

— Jerry Murph

Kannapolis