OPINION/COMMENTARY: THE PLACE IS EARTH. THE TIME IS NOW. LAST WEEK I SAID KEN BONE IS NOT COMING TO SAVE US, AND THAT WE MUST DIG DOWN DEEP TO FIND THE KEN BONE WITHIN. AND I MEANT ALL OF THAT. TRULY, I DID. BUT NOW THAT I’VE HAD SOME TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT . . . MAYBE WE COULD DO MORE? LIKE, WE SPEND TRILLIONS ON THE DEFENSE BUDGET, AND WE DON’T WIN ANY WARS, WE JUST END UP COMMITTING WAR CRIMES, WE CREATE SITUATIONS WHERE OUR MILITARY PERSONNEL SUFFER NEEDLESSLY ACROSS MULTIPLE EXTENDED DEPLOYMENTS, WE BECOME CYNICAL, WE BECOME CRUEL, WE INTERNALIZE OUR MILITARISTIC AGGRESSION AND USE IT AGAINST OUR DOMESTIC POPULATION WITH THINGS LIKE WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE AND THE BORDER WALL AND THE I.C.E. DEATH SQUAD AND ALL THE REST . . . LIKE MAYBE IN ADDITION TO THE KEN BONE THING . . . I DUNNO . . . MAYBE WE COULD REDISTRIBUTE SOME OF THAT PENTAGON MONEY SO WE CAN HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE? SOMETHING LIKE THAT? . . . TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH . . . AFTER I DUG DEEP INTO MYSELF AND FOUND THE KEN BONE WITHIN . . . I TRADED IT AT THIS RETRO TOY CONVENTION FOR A MINT-IN-BOX NEMESIS ENFORCER ACTION FIGURE-THE WINGED DUDE FROM THE 1980s G.I. JOE ANIMATED MOVIE. YEAH, IT WAS A GOOD DEAL. I DEFINITELY TRADED UP. COULD BE A LESSON IN THAT, BIG DAWGS!
