…..so I went this morning to set up an on-line account for a soil testing kit I recently purchased through Amazon, and you would not believe the security measures those feckless sons-of-bitches subjected me to. For a benign soil testing kit, no less! Why, you would have thought the paranoid bastards at MySoil thought they were protecting the front gates to Fort Knox or the uber-secret recipe to Colonel Sanders’ Kentucky Fried Chicken or Elon Musk’s personal cell phone number, so stringent were the safeguards and password-creating protocols the MySoil folks forced me to follow just to register a pedestrian soil sample from my backyard garden into their data banks. I can see the blaring front-page headline in the Chicago Tribune right now: SOPHISTICATED COMPUTER HACKERS STEAL VITAL INFORMATION BELONGING TO A MULTITUDE OF BACKYARD GARDENERS!!! And the secondary headline: The Nefarious Thieves now have Access to the pH Levels of the Soil in Many Thousands of North American Food Plots! A bona fide national security emergency, for sure…..
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