Is there anything everybody's for?

Okay. Let's try World Peace. May I assume that everyone is for World Peace, that World Peace, at least, is something nobody's against?

See, I'm not convinced I can make even that claim any longer. Not after what happened with Cancer.

I used to jokingly quip that if someone discovered a cure for cancer, somebody somewhere would be against it. That was supposed to sound utterly absurd. That was supposed to be an utterance whose utter absurdity would serve to draw ludicrous attention to and pointedly rebuke the swelling numbers of gainsayers in our society, the people eager to oppose or find fault with just about anything, if only to grab a turn in the spotlight.

Well, look what they've done to my song, ma.

Along comes the HPV vaccine a few years ago, and instead of universal joy over a medical breakthrough affording potentially surefire protection against cervical cancer, what do we get? Gainsayers! People against protecting women from cancer. People who feel it will make young girls promiscuous, and reckon death the more desirable alternative.

As Nancy Kerrigan once wondered, "Why? Why? Whyyyyyy ... ?" Why does idiocy have to figure so prominently in the makeup of Dodo sapiens?

I know I won't live long enough to find the world verging on World Peace; won't be around when the gainsayers start saying gain on that score. Would that I could, though. I'd like to laugh myself to death over their lunatic line of reasoning.

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