Sex Scandal Helps Environment
Who would have thought that the wild salmon could benefit from a sex scandal? I never would have thought but, eh, if that’s what it takes, then be it. Ex-Senator Larry Craig, one of the most adamant opponents to the protection of wild salmon in northeast rivers can no longer exert his Republican influence and maybe now the Democrats and environmentalists can have their way.
When I heard of the above mentioned scandal, I thought the whole affair sounded quite fishy (sorry I could not resist the double pun). All the apologies the Senator offered reeked and I felt quite sorry for his wife. When things of this nature break out, the wife always gets called to the rescue and so there she was, after being publicly humiliated, standing by his side as he weaved his speech around some really inventive excuses.
Then I thought, so this is the kind of people that is running the country! Actually, not just a country but a very powerful country. Good grief, how did we get this far…
But there is always a silver lining at the end of the rainbow and maybe the silver lining of this story is the policy to protect the salmon. After all, how often do we hear that we need to eat more fish and salmon is pure brain food with all its healthy fats and whatnot. Very often, I hear you. (OK, sometimes, we also hear the bad news about mercury in fish.) Wild is better than farm-raised but either way there is not enough good salmon to go around everyone. Some sort of protection would be welcomed. As would be better education of individuals so that they started eating less (smaller portions) and left more to go around. In the U.S. it seems that when you go out to eat, half of your food ends up in the dumpster. Maybe we should just adopt the French system: eat very small portions of oh, so decadent food and just be really pleased with your first few bites. That seems more civilized than stuffing oneself silly and putting on extra pounds.
Then again, there was once upon a time when civilization meant that you stuffed yourself silly then headed to the vomitorium to throw up and then restarted your meal all over again. Ah, the Roman Empire…
October 8th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
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January 7th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
very interesting.
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