No-fly zone? How?

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Friday March 18, 2011 · 5:58 AM PDT

2011/03/18 · 05:58

I really don't get this no-fly zone -- in Libya, of all places!

I live in the rural South, out in the crop country where there's lots of animals. Our nearest neighbors have horses; then there's all of our own dogs pooping outside. There's a dairy farm just down the road, and of course you'll find dead squirrels and opossums and such out in the woods from time to time, all full of maggots. I mean, the world is full of shit, right?

No matter how hard we try every spring, with the window screens and those fly-strips everywhere and the bug-zapper in the barn and a couple of fly swatters hanging off the fridge, we can't establish a no-fly zone around our own place. It just can't be done.

In fact, I've never been in a house where there wasn't the occasional fly come to land on the cookies or the cornbread, and I've been in some nice homes, let me tell you. Flies are a fact of life. It's just the way things are, in warmer climes.

Now you take a place like Africa.

Libya has got to be full of stray camel crap and donkey dooky. And don't tell me all those little villages have nothing but indoor plumbing! I just know they all have little houses out back, most of them. Gracious, Libya has wandering Bedouin tribes riding camels around, and camping out in tents. Libya has shepherds herding sheep and goats up in the hills. Those critters poop as they walk, everywhere they go.

And it's 110 degrees in the shade over there!

I even saw chickens on a city street right on CNN yesterday. No need to tell me about flies and chickens! Flies and chickens are natural born friends. That's why you build the coop well away from the house.

Surely, NATO has better things to do than try to set up a no-fly zone in a place like that!

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