I know I’ve picked a rather odd topic as a starting point for a post on politics, but maybe not. I recently found a book in a library give-away stack called Dung Beetles. If you don’t know what that is, take some time to look it up. In short, it is a beetle that rolls dung (particularly cow manure) and has ties to ancient religions (Egyptian). I discovered Dung Beetles years ago when my dad told me about seeing them moving across the flat plains of west Texas, where the wind pumps the water, and the cows cut the wood.