Just What Did He Think He Was Buying?

So for my birthday my sister gave me a subscription to Mother Earth News, which is a magazine devoted to growing your own food, living off the land, etc. We are loving it—and learning a lot about why some things haven’t worked as well as we had hoped.  This issue has articles on planting fall cover crops (done on one bed--I still need to do the others), planting garlic (YAY!), cooking with applesauce (YUM!) and growing veggies in the winter (you know I'm going to).


October/November issue just arrived, and as I was flipping through the pages, the following letter heading caught my eye: Hates Our “Wacko Spew.” Okay, who wouldn’t be intrigued? A subscriber—SUBSCRIBER--wrote the following in a letter:


“I tend to ‘throw up’ in my mouth just a little more each and every time I read your wacko ‘save the Earth’ spew.” 

He goes on to assert that there is "no such thing as man-made global warming," and asks, "Did a bunch of liberal hippies overtake your headquarters?"

Okay, first of all--thanks for the icky visual.  I don't think we really needed that.  Secondly, IF HE HATES THE MAGAZINE, WHY DOES HE CONTINUE TO READ IT--AND SUBSCRIBE?  Third, it's called "Mother Earth News."  Don't you think that might mean it would be about being environmentally friendly???  Wouldn't you love to know what he thought the magazine would be about--updates from the mother ship/planet???????  I mean, I could understand if it was called "Mother Earth--That Crazy B*tch" or something.  Then it might not be quite so obvious. But Mother Earth--don't you just get an image of Mama Cass in a mu-mu singing about California dreaming?

Meanwhile, little "Wacko" that I am, I'm off to stir our "wacko" compost bin, plant our "wacko" garlic, and spread a little "wacko" mulch. Then later I'll sit down with a cup of hot coffee and read the rest of my "wacko" magazine....