To the editor:
As the warmth of summer is replaced by the polar vortexes of winter, I am reminded that we are lucky to be here at all.
Earlier this year, the smartest people in the world, the intelligentsia of Monroe County, specifically Indiana University and the City of Bloomington, traveled east on Route 46 to impart their wisdom to the country folks of Brown County with regards to a zoning request to put in a petting zoo in Belmont. I attended that meeting and was astonished that the intelligentsia repeatedly violated the simple time limit rules for speakers that were established by the chair prior to the meeting. What should have been a 40-minute discussion lasted well over three hours.
When the meeting was over, I was convinced that as a result of this petting zoo, we would be dead by winter from various plagues brought to Brown County by this zoo.
Therefore, I amazed that we are still here in December. Speaker after speaker from Bloomington knew what this petting zoo would bring death and dying of people and animals. As typical liberals, they missed entirely what it did bring: revenue to both the county and to the owners.
The social justice warriors of Bloomington need to stick what they are good at: baying at the moon and buying $5,000 solar trash cans for their city.
Mark C. Medlyn, Brown County
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