Lance Mannion has a recent post entitled “Vultures in the Neighborhood” which I think is the best piece of writing on the slovenly wilderness since John McPhee wrote about (insert your topic here).
The vultures are moving northward because of global warming and also because the world is becoming a non-stop ribbon of cement which produces thermal updrafts that make for warm winds.
This latter fact has made me grateful that I live in Iowa where there are no warm winds and where believe it or not we still have lots of dirt roads. I may live in a “fly over” state and accordingly none of my coastal friends will ever visit me, by but by God I ain’t got no vomiting vultures taking over my yard, excreting on my car, urinating on my mailbox, carrying off the Dachshund, etc.
You think I’m exaggerating do you? Read Dr. Mannion’s thorough treatment of the matter and you too will be grateful if you live as I do in a place too rural and frosty for the vulture set.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
Really, if you’re out there listening, there ARE other things good about Iowa too. First of all you can’t buy a quart of milk without running into a poet, a Ph.D. candidate or other aspiring intellectual type. Maybe this is why we have no vultures–not enough fat cats of the Madoff ilk.
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