A Modern Variation on an Old Tale

Jenna Orkin

Once upon a time, there was a young boy who lived in the town of Anywhere. One day his mother sent him to the woods to pick berries. On his way, he saw a wolf.

"Wolf!" cried the boy, as he ran back to the town.

"The child has an overactive imagination," said the townspeople and resumed building a road to the city where they could sell their berries.

A few days later, the same thing happened again.

"Be off!" said the townspeople to the boy whose concerns were becoming less funny by the moment, and more irksome.

The following week, the scene repeated itself a third time.

While the townspeople were throwing crateloads of rotten berries at the boy, the wolf bounded out of the woods and ate them all.

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JO comment: I'm no fan of the guy; he's been a lethal combo of gullibility and ambition. But that he should fall from grace largely for the sins of the oil industry and its protectors in the Bush administration brings to mind the words of T.S. Eliot:

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