Growing up on a hog farm, I saw hogs eat each other. Especially when the “lunch” hog was sick, injured, or different in any way.
Every now and then you saw a hog born with both set of genitals. Hermaphrodites became prime lunch if they happened to be sick or weak.
When I read Orwell’s Animal Farm, these words rang true: All animals are equal. But pigs are more equal.
So, to all my friends peeing their pants over immigrants on the border, I offer you something to consider:
The basic facts of American history.
A few years later these immigrants didn’t want to work so hard — and they loved the cash that free labor cotton raked in — so they enslaved 10.7 million fellow human beings. A team of these slaves built the White House and Capitol building under the immigrants’ lash.

Now they are upset because a few of the slaves’ offspring act like animals.
Fast forward to today.
Mission almost accomplished.
Only one more insurrection and white supremacists will be free to build chimneys and eliminate all those who believe the sky is blue and water is wet.
They are now banning books.
They are now politicizing school boards.
My own novel was banned by the local library because it exposed the East Tennessee opioid culture.
This blog will put me up the chimney. Indeed.