I think I have found a new favorite beanie. My only question is why it costs so much if it is made from 40% pest?
The possum was introduced into New Zealand from Australia and is an ecological pest. 90 million of them are munching through 21,000 tonnes of vegetation every night. Possum culling is endorsed by the WWF and GreenPeace.
Are we supposed to feel good about reducing the possum threat? Good enough to spend $60 for a hat?
A-Cats at Ft Myers from Fly Rod on Vimeo.
SFGate has posted a smoking critique of those who lament the new tobacco tax in an op-ed called Give It Up, Smoker / Death, cancer, rotted teeth, emphysema won’t do it, but 62 cents will?. Example:
Also lost amid the outcry: how the same legislation that cranked up the tobacco tax also gives long-overdue powers back to the FDA to regulate Big Tobacco — powers, by the way, that Bush twice vetoed, in the name of corporate cronyism and general immoral idiocy.
Is that the real smokers’ lament? “Damn you, Obama administration, working to regulate the chemicals in my poisons and trying to make me marginally safer! Can’t I just get lung cancer and emphysema and be a massive burden on my friends, family and the health care industry in peace, without government meddling?” Wait, that can’t be right.
Amusing view of regulation.
Do you wonder how to tell whether you have a conficker infection?
A simple test has been released by the Conficker Working Group.
Try it out here.