Monday, June 21, 2010

Bob Bird's Bidding

(The following post is in no way a reference to West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and lamentably still Senator after all these years.) I saw the pitiful video footage of an oil-soaked pelican bobbing up and down in the Gulf of Mexico, hopefully still alive, and if so, in dire need of rescue by the same species- man, that caused its distress. If any criminal liability is eventually adjudicated in this matter, perhaps the guilty party or parties can be sent to Pelican Bay, not the prison in California but someplace where the wildlife may avenge themselves by excoriating the negligent monster(s) that brought about this human and environmental catastrophe. But I have always thought it was a shame that Bambi could not return fire during hunting season. After all, is the weapon of choice then not called a deer rifle?

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