Scattered Thoughts Coagulate

Macerator

Eggs only come from female chickens, right?  Millions of them, stuck up in those factory farm cages laying eggs year-round.  And they have to be replaced every two years, so that means new hens are constantly being bred to keep egg production going.  But what about all the male chickens that are inevitably hatched too?  No use to the egg industry, right?  Well, all those millions of male chicks - tiny, day-old chicks - are gathered up and slaughtered in a high-speed grinder!  Millions every year!  A level of death unprecedented in nature - just think about that.

And then think about this: If a ghost is the restless spirit of a creature that has died violently then just think about all the ghost chicks that are roaming the streets under your feet.  Billions of fuzzy little babies wandering confusedly around looking for their mothers and never finding them, sheltering from the rain under discarded newspapers, pecking in futility at crumbs of food - unable to understand their own intangibility.  Billions of tiny little souls, gliding among the blades of grass in a city park, running from dogs that can’t even see them, never growing up, spending eternity in confused anguish because no-one can help them.  Millions more joining their numbers each year… and that’s just one small facet of the food industry.

The Creation of Superman

Jerry Siegel: Duuuude… we should write a comic book.

Joe Shuster: Aww fuck yeah!  We can make a really cool superhero with kickass super-powers!

Jerry Siegel: Yeah bro, he’ll be the strongest man on earth!  And nothing can kill him!  He can fly around and fight crime and shit!

Joe Shuster: Dude… what if he, like, flew into space?

Jerry Siegel: Naw, no worries Joe-Sho, he won’t even need to breathe!  And uh… he’ll have fuckin laser beams that shoot out of his eyeballs!

Joe Shuster: Fuck yeah, laser beams!  So, uh, what do we call him?

Jerry Siegel: Aw shit, I dunno…