"The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness of the local ranchers, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them fuckers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat something else." - Merle Haggard, born this day in 1937, died this day in 2016.