I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.
- Glenn Beck
[Shaun leads the zombies away from the pub to create a diversion]
Shaun: Come and get it! It’s a running buffet!
[shouts]
Shaun: All you can eat!
- from Shaun of the Dead
Yeah, I know; it’s been all over da Interwebs since yesterday. Nonetheless, you may count me among those happy that the Centers for Disease Control is prepared for the coming Zombie Apocalypse. THIS is what government SHOULD be doing, no? What? Like the private sector is going to see their way clear to full zombie preparedness? Keep in mind that the things that government should be doing include, defense, foreign policy, economic policy…and preparing for the coming Zombie Apocalypse.
The thing I learned today, besides the whole CDC-zombie-preparedness thing, is that the CDC has a(n epically wonderful) blog. I’m still trying to get past the whole man-sitting-at-a-keyboard-in-his-underwear-while-in-his-parents’-basement mental image (your tax dollars at work!!). Once I can find a way through that, the epic wonderfulness of the CDC’s blog post on zombie preparedness will no doubt manifest itself to me. I don’t know how much we taxpayers are paying Ali S. Khan, the author of perhaps the greatest blog post of all time…but it’s clearly not nearly enough.
For those of us who are fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead, news of the CDC’s preparedness comes as welcome news. Then again, I’m not so certain that Atlanta being overrun by zombies is such a bad thing. I mean, have you seen the place? But, I digress….
In the meantime, Happy Zombie Awareness Month, y’all!! Party responsibly…and remember, in the prescient words of G. Gordon Liddy, “HEAD SHOTS, PEOPLE!!! HEAD SHOTS!!”