In more discouraging news regarding the world's oceans, the Japanese appear to be winning the battle to restart commercial whaling, which has been banned since 1986, through the use of bribery, foreign aid, and prostitutes.
This would be a horrible setback to the preservation of these magnificent animals. (One Japanese whaling official described the Minke Whale as the "cockroach of the ocean.") I have a few words to describe the official, but they would be unprintable -- even here.
I find this sort of thing discouraging and inexplicable.
C, I am going to send you my pharmacy bill this month. Be prepared--it's going to be a whopper.
Those pro-whaling people are the ebola of the Pacific Basin.
Posted by: litbrit | June 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM
We need Kirk, Spock and the boys to get back here with that Klingon bird of prey and fuck some whalers' shit up.
Posted by: Toast | June 17, 2010 at 11:33 AM
GRRROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN....................
Posted by: oddjob | June 17, 2010 at 11:36 AM
Well, now I can understand why the Japanese are pro-whaling. Can you imagine being beset by 25-foot-long cockroaches? I'd want to harpoon a few of 'em too!
Humor aside, yeah, this really sucks.
Posted by: low-tech cyclist | June 17, 2010 at 02:06 PM
Couldn't they get really big glue traps?
Posted by: Sir Charles | June 17, 2010 at 02:14 PM
lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. and distantly related to cockroaches, biologically.
i can report that noplace i visited in japan was beset by whales, nor were whales a household problem [garden problem, roadside hazard, etc.] when i lived there.
Posted by: kathy a. | June 17, 2010 at 02:36 PM