the circus

ladies and gentlemen, i present to you a segment that i hold near and dear to my heart, for it has been a part of my life since before the circus, and even before dave's raves.

while this segment is called question of the day, it may not be done everyday, but never fear, the threat level hot sheet changes daily for those who need their fix of my cheesy punnery.

as with all questions of the day, please take a moment to file your response in the comments section, whether or not you took a moment to actually ponder said response (the unedited answers are often best). also, as with all of questions of the day, it is spawned from my own bizarre brain, or that of one of my bizarre brained friends, and may in fact bear no foundation in current events, or even reality, or it might be quite apropos to the times, therefore they will come with a short explanation of why this thing is on my mind in the first place, as well as many other related questions that don't necessarily require an answer. so, doing away with all further disclaimers and formalities, today's question:

do you think the amish are pissed off at the rest of us for fucking it up for them?

i ask because it occurs to me that, in these desperate times of attempting to green everything up, and shrink our carbon footprints, and eat organically, and live cooperatively, and all these things, the amish have been doing this for years, yet they are basically prone to the same pitfalls of modern society as the rest of us, because the rest of us are destroying the whole world. i mean, do you think that if we all suffocate in a carbon cloud, or some country or group declares war on the US, that the amish will just continue to live happy and free in their little communities? hell no. they'll choke to death on smog, or have to kowtow to our new foreign overlords just like the rest of us.

so i ask, do you think they are pissed off, because they have been, and are living the way we can't seem to figure out how to, and consequently we are destroying the planet we all live on? do you think they will eventually snap, and be, themselves, the ones who declare war on the US? if so, how long do you think it will take for the US military to slaughter the entire amish population? a month? a week? if they declared war right now as you read this, would the war be over by this time tomorrow? would it be over before you finished reading this post? would we also accidentally attack the chasidic jews, simply because we never respected either religion enough to figure out the visual difference between the two?

so, today, i ask you, dear readers, do you think the amish are pissed off at the rest of us for fucking it up for them?

fun fact: the notion of going to war with the amish was first pondered, in great detail, by myself and a hare krishna friend, while smoking hash on the roof of a tea shop, overlooking the ganges river during india's festival of colors. i hope this piece helps you assemble the puzzle that is me.