Ebola is the new kudzu.

[Major Hogwash]

It could only happen here, here at the DU.

DU's name will be changed to EBOLA CENTRAL on November 1st!
Coincidentally, that is the same weekend that daylight savings time ends.

*cue spooky music*

I can hear it already ---

"It's a neoliberal conspiracy!"
"The PTB wants to keep us in the dark about Ebola!"
"Hillary and the third way like the dark!"
"This is why the Giants lost the series!"
"Ever notice that Obama never mentioned giants in any of his speeches??"




The new masthead for DU will read:

EBOLA CENTRAL
WHERE YOU CAN TALK EBOLA 24 HOURS A DAY!
BECAUSE . . YOU ASKED FOR IT!

Methinks that sounds like a motto for a cable channel.
Im series!
Its gotten outta hand.
Its spreading . . . at an exponential rate, no less!!

[Cha]

1. I hope not, Major!

[Major Hogwash]

5. Oh, hell, Cha, DU's subtitle has been "Dashing hopes since 2001, and damn proud of it!"

What are you listening to tonight?

Me, The Best of the Doors.

[Cha]

6. Sounds Good! I was Listening to Steely Dan last night.. but tonight I'm watching old

episodes of Castle on Netflix.

Would you REC this while you're listening to the Doors? It wants to be noticed..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025693651

[Cha]

9. Thank you!

[Major Hogwash]

10. LOL, well, there's no doubt anymore . . .

. . . I love you, man!

[Cha]

11. ..

Forever!

[6000eliot]

2. Not for me. I eliminate every Ebola post I see.

Except this one.

[Warpy]

3. You can eat kudzu.

Ebola is useless unless you're a plutocrat or one of their bigoted pet preachers who think in terms of culling the herd, as long as it's not them.

They still don't understand viruses have no borders, any more than kudzu does.

[Major Hogwash]

4. Well, to be honest, you can eat anything.

If you have enough catsup.

[Warpy]

7. Ketchup is kid stuff

Try salsa, instead.

[In_The_Wind]

8. I grew up surrounded by Kudzu.

We pulled it down outta the trees in our backyard but I never thought of the killer vine as food.

[Warpy]

12. There are a lot of recipes out there

http://www.thekitchn.com/did-you-know-you-can-eat-kudzu-92488 is one place.

In Asia, the root is dried and ground into flour and used much as arrowroot is used in the west.

Lots of medicinal properties are also ascribed to kudzu. Some of them might even pan out, you never know.

It was imported to stop highway bank erosion in the south, which it did. They failed to note that the stuff grew a foot a day when it rained. Just a few years later, it started to pull down electrical lines and eat whole houses and outbuildings.

Some enterprising foodie will likely come up with a line of foods and beauty products based on kudzu and its roots. Until then, I guess you'll have to keep whacking away at it every few weeks.