Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 07, 2015

What a great idea for a science fiction story. Maybe I’ll try a series like this:- First story. Extreme drought causes a lack of the corn that is (inadvisably) fed to beef cattle, along with numerous chemicals, to create extra-fatty, very tender, high cost beef. Beef cattle vanishes from menus across the US, after a series of desperate thefts of the remaining animals to ensure beef cattle for certain extremely rich people…-Second story. The lack of said beef results in an absence of red meat for plates in costly restaurants popular with attorneys and politicians. Secret ‘beef speak easys’ pop up in Washington, DC and other strategic locations, but they are few and die out.-Third story. in courthouses across the US, mistrials are declared in case after case as juries can’t make findings when lawyers question witnesses and defendants with repect for the first time in history.- Final story. A major crisis ensues in editorial rooms and on television news shows, as the congressional deadlock not only ends, but the mass of lawyers serving in the Congress begin to work closely with the President of the US to solve problems. All due to an absence of red meat in their diets…