Tobi: You know who I really would like to be?
Tobi (2): My all-time favorite personal hero, Norman Borlaug.
Panel 2 Close two-shot of Bert and Ernie.
Bert and Ernie in unison: Who?
Panel 3 Focus on Tobi, with the others gathered around him.
Tobi: Who was the Cambodian leader who murdered over a quarter of his countrymen? Everyone else in unison: Pol Pot!
Panel 4 Switch angles, now Tobi's back to us and we can see everyone else facing him.
Tobi: And what two 'world leaders' shared the distinction of having murdered their own countrymen somewhere in the eight-figure range?
Everyone else in unison: Stalin, Mao!
Panel 5 Medium close-up on Tobi, holding up a professorial finger.
Tobi: So you know these monsters who spilled an ocean of blood, but you don't have a clue about the hero who was the Green Revolution. The man who saved the lives of over a billion fellow human beings.
Panel 6 Group shot, put Ernie on the left and Tobi on the right.
Ernie: Uh, I'm guessing 'Norman Borlaug?'
Tobi: You should look him up in the Tanglepedia. It's inspiring.
Borlaug's work debunked the Malthusians and population bomb criers of my generation-- the same sorry group of people who are the global warming profiteers of today.
Borlaug was also a very humble and God-fearing man who gave the credit for his work to a higher power.
I don't even recall reading about his passing. If the local fishwrap carried it at all, it was probably buried somewhere in the obit page.
Damn shame considering all the coverage and half-mast flags for Teddy Kennedy who, in the eternal scheme of things, never amounted to a polyp on Norman Borlaug's rear end.