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CSotD: On the wings of a snow-white rat

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Mike Peterson Published: May 28, 2011 1 minute 1 comment

A vignette of coastal life from Non Sequitur.

Wiley Miller has been living on the stern and rockbound coast of Maine for about a dozen years now, but, given that he moved there from the stern and rockbound coast of Santa Barbara, he's probably seen french fries filched several times.

People say that pigeons are "rats with wings." Nonsense. As anyone who has lived around seagulls can attest, pigeons are only mice with wings. You can take a photograph of the white gulls outlined against a blue sky, flocking in the wake of a fishing boat, and it will look lovely and picturesque to people who have never been around gulls.

But, if rats were that bold, you could also photograph a pack of them chasing a garbage truck down the street and you'd have caught the same thing.

Enough. Wiley and I have much in common, the worst aspect of which is a horrifying risk of morphing into …