Just Another Reason to Be Vegetarian

If you have HBO, then you've maybe had the opportunity to see Deadwood. It's so cock full of swearing (pun intended) even MY ears turned red when I started watching! Okay, not really. I've watched a lot of South Park. I'm probably immune to that sort of thing.

But Deadwood is pretty darned interesting! For those who haven't seen it, it's set in the wild west, back around the gold rush. There's claim jumping and Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill, well, not him, he's dead now.

The western movies that Hollywood produced in the olden days of black-and-white TV had NOTHING to do with anything that ever happened. It was all Disneyfied, kinda, because all the Jews were in Hollywood at the time, and they were desperately trying to produce TV that America would find "wholesome." That way, they wouldn't all get blacklisted, while the McCarthyists were kicking out Communists.

And that's why it's all really, really boring! Or at least, that's part of the reason. It's also boring because it's old. And because we all think people were stupid back then.

But in Deadwood, most people are smart, crafty, cunning... Except for the many people who have sustained head injuries. Injuries and wounds of all kinds were more frequent then! It was a rough time. The only reason anybody lived through it, I guess, was just luck. I mean, while they were killing each other all the time, SOMEONE had to not die. And those people begat you and me.

Now, in Deadwood, people occasionally became, uh, inconvenient to have still around. So, this one extra-cunning guy kills someone so often that he has a handy disposal method. He has his lackey drag the body over on a sled to Mr. Wu's. Mr. Wu is a Chinaman. He keeps pigs.

And yes... The pigs DO eat well every time someone is murdered! How did you guess that?

And that all leads us to today's item of interest. Mr. Wu's Discount Meats T-Shirt. Buy one today, they're available only through April! I get no kickbacks. But I DO have this secret glee from the existence of these T-shirts! Oops, I told you. Now it's not a secret... Oh, wait, I forgot: the pigs! My secret will be safe after all!