Ebola

Rhesus Pieces

Trying to stop the Ebola spread, and having identified the likely source as “bush meat,” the CDC and the UN’s WHO dispatched teams with big checkbooks to try to buy out the hunters co-op and finance raising pigs or sheep instead, only to find out they were too late.  The co-op had already been shut down by a lawsuit from an American candy company claiming “trademark infringement”–seems the co-op had been marketing under the name of Rhesus Pieces . . .

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No Laughing Matter

The guys knew they were called Laughing Gulls, and they usually had a good time in the morning, a Starbucks, an Egg-a-muffin, but today, after hearing the morning news–the Tex-Mex border problems (just down the road), Ebola in West Africa, hurricanes in Hawaii, fighting in the Ukraine, and of course the ongoing Middle East drama– they realized the news today was no laughing matter  . . .

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