MoveOn asked me to call my Senator and urge opposition to Bush's plan to convert the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into a toxic oil-company subsidy teat. But Smith's voice mail box was full.
Act For Change had a different number to call, but it was forwarded to the same overflowing box.
Oh, well. I tried.
Can you tell I'm feeling a little tired?
But that's the problem, of course, the basic asymmetry, with trying to protect vulnerable ecosystems, or vulnerable populations: we have to win again and again, in perpetuity, while the eat-and-run crowd only have to win once for the game to be over.
Forever.
Sigh.
//The Magic 8-Ball says: "Don't you have anything more important to ask about?"\\
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This should perk you up.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/story1.htm
I thought the bird was gone and all the post-war sightings essentially fairies, like Bigfoot and Chupacabras. It's good to be wrong.
Of course, it could still be functionally extinct. Or the Present Administration could still destroy it. Expect to get begging letters from environmental groups with Ivorybill Woodpecker logos.
But for now, just sit and think of that searcher sitting on a log crying for joy: "I saw an ivory bill!"
Thank you, Peni. See my entry for the following day.
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