Our Current Threat Level?

Along with our penchant for cheap Chinese manufactured shit, we Americans like our food cheap and shitty too. Just look to today's recall of 380,000,000 eggs, and note that the recall is totally voluntary.

Yep. Voluntary. Go ahead, just voluntarily remove all your P-1026, P-1413, and P-1946 eggs you've already bought, already half-consumed. All three hundred and eighty million of them. If you're typical, you'll ignore this recall. Just ignore it. The odds of you being affected are slim...considering that there are only 9,000 tainted food related deaths per year in this country, your risk is virtually nil. Virtually nil. Your odds of getting killed by an errant 23-year-old driver on her cell-phone is much higher, and much more probable, so please, ignore all this food safety bullshit and continue to consume your 224 eggs per year without regard to where they're sourced.

Especially if the recall is voluntary. Would you voluntarily return your child's fire-proof pajamas just because one in three hundred and eighty million children spontaneously combusted?

No.

Would you voluntarily return your 16 lb, Double Face Brigade Hickory Handle Sledge Hammer because the head might loosen and detach, posing a risk of impact injury to you, the American consumer?

No.

But...you'll feed that kid of yours pop tarts, ho-hos, fruity pebbles, Shasta soda, and totally care less about where all that [notional] food comes from.

You could care less...much like you could care less about what color our national security threat level is. No one knows. Not me. And not you.

It is as pointless to know our DHS threat level as it is salmonella outbreaks in our food supply. They represent minor threats; insignificant threats. You are much better off focusing on Mel Gibson's tirades or Lady Gaga's next wardrobe. Truthfully. I don't mean that in a bad way. You are more American by knowing where Tom proposed to Katie than where the Battle of the Bulge was fought.

I might be suggesting that we ought to focus on different things here in our U.S., but really, I don't ever see it happening. I blog as if. As if we'd actually do anything meaningful in this nation. We won't, and I'm smart enough to understand that, and I could honestly care less if this nation of ours self-destructs, implodes, or becomes the icon of environmental stewardship and sustainable economic sensibility.

I could care less because, in all instances, I intend on thriving. To the extent that I plan correctly for self destruction, I will thrive and if it never happens and we return to 4.5% growth and infinite natural resource extraction, well, I most certainly will continue to thrive.