News?
Yes, There Are Animals
Bizarrely making the headlines in what passes as a newspaper in a dying industry (see latest stats below under SOURCE), is this story of amazement (to some) about how a coyote has been visiting a golf course.
Notwithstanding the blessing to the environment in particular and to rational people in general, if coyotes and wolfs and chupacabras terrorized every golf course in the world into oblivion, is there any wonder as to why an animal would be anywhere? Certainly animals are not (yet) bound to zoning ordinances, although our animals will soon be forced to hook into the city’s sewer system from their dens and burrows and nests and warrens if they want to continue to live on Marco Island.
So as to further perplex the soul, the same folks that are amazed about one coyote are even more aghast that ANOTHER coyote has showed up. Which of course no one saw, but was identified as such via their … paw prints. You really can’t make this up.
Well, as an effort to educate the public, this blog strives to be based on science. So here is a 4th grade-level short class on those things that bark and howl: coyotes (Canis latrans) are members of the Canidae genre of mammals – basically they are dogs. And like all dog species and Nazi U-boats of the Kriegmmarine, they live in packs, hunt in packs, and play golf in packs. “Packs” means that there are more than one. So, when you see one, rest assured there are others.
Next week’s newspaper headline: “Third Coyote Terrorizes Golf Course”. And ad nausea until the total number in the pack is exhausted – or until fictional news appears, such as Israel is bombing the Hezbolians into oblivion, or one of the two only remaining 20th century murderous dictators may be on his death bed.
Conspiracy
Was there asbestos at the site? Was it just a misstatement by a city official? Were the tests forged? Were the pipes crushed, pulverized or just removed? Watergate revisited? Or should we call it Asbestosgate?
Experts and those with first hand knowledge of the incident are invited to submit to this blog their input.
In the meantime, we trust that the documents are not sealed until 2062 (a la the Kennedy assassination papers).
It Sinks – Again
This past Saturday entreated us to yet another sinking of the crane that is working on a Mac-Mansion next to the west Winterberry bridge. No, No, don’t panic – it’s the WEST Winterberry bridge (raising the EAST Winterberry bridge to the height of the San Francisco bridge will commence soon after 99.9999% of the Marco Island citizens vote against raising it).
We have to feel sorry for those fine folks that run the crane and are just doing their business. It must have been a tsunami that sunk the crane – again.
Speaking of tsunamis, did the city go to the second sinking and check the environment? Did any fuel or oil or some other toxin spill into the water? Uhm …
Source:
USA Today, June 5,2006: Newspapers offered a mixed story Monday as new data showed a circulation decline industry wide — by alarming rates at some. Average weekday circulation fell 2.5%, to 45.4 million, in the six months ending March 31, vs. the same period last year, according to a Newspaper Association of America (NAA) analysis of Audit Bureau of Circulations data from 770 dailies. Sunday circulation fell 3.1% to 48.5 million at 610 reporting newspapers. The numbers reflect a continuation of a trend that began in the 1980.
Bizarrely making the headlines in what passes as a newspaper in a dying industry (see latest stats below under SOURCE), is this story of amazement (to some) about how a coyote has been visiting a golf course.
Notwithstanding the blessing to the environment in particular and to rational people in general, if coyotes and wolfs and chupacabras terrorized every golf course in the world into oblivion, is there any wonder as to why an animal would be anywhere? Certainly animals are not (yet) bound to zoning ordinances, although our animals will soon be forced to hook into the city’s sewer system from their dens and burrows and nests and warrens if they want to continue to live on Marco Island.
So as to further perplex the soul, the same folks that are amazed about one coyote are even more aghast that ANOTHER coyote has showed up. Which of course no one saw, but was identified as such via their … paw prints. You really can’t make this up.
Well, as an effort to educate the public, this blog strives to be based on science. So here is a 4th grade-level short class on those things that bark and howl: coyotes (Canis latrans) are members of the Canidae genre of mammals – basically they are dogs. And like all dog species and Nazi U-boats of the Kriegmmarine, they live in packs, hunt in packs, and play golf in packs. “Packs” means that there are more than one. So, when you see one, rest assured there are others.
Next week’s newspaper headline: “Third Coyote Terrorizes Golf Course”. And ad nausea until the total number in the pack is exhausted – or until fictional news appears, such as Israel is bombing the Hezbolians into oblivion, or one of the two only remaining 20th century murderous dictators may be on his death bed.
Conspiracy
Was there asbestos at the site? Was it just a misstatement by a city official? Were the tests forged? Were the pipes crushed, pulverized or just removed? Watergate revisited? Or should we call it Asbestosgate?
Experts and those with first hand knowledge of the incident are invited to submit to this blog their input.
In the meantime, we trust that the documents are not sealed until 2062 (a la the Kennedy assassination papers).
It Sinks – Again
This past Saturday entreated us to yet another sinking of the crane that is working on a Mac-Mansion next to the west Winterberry bridge. No, No, don’t panic – it’s the WEST Winterberry bridge (raising the EAST Winterberry bridge to the height of the San Francisco bridge will commence soon after 99.9999% of the Marco Island citizens vote against raising it).
We have to feel sorry for those fine folks that run the crane and are just doing their business. It must have been a tsunami that sunk the crane – again.
Speaking of tsunamis, did the city go to the second sinking and check the environment? Did any fuel or oil or some other toxin spill into the water? Uhm …
Source:
USA Today, June 5,2006: Newspapers offered a mixed story Monday as new data showed a circulation decline industry wide — by alarming rates at some. Average weekday circulation fell 2.5%, to 45.4 million, in the six months ending March 31, vs. the same period last year, according to a Newspaper Association of America (NAA) analysis of Audit Bureau of Circulations data from 770 dailies. Sunday circulation fell 3.1% to 48.5 million at 610 reporting newspapers. The numbers reflect a continuation of a trend that began in the 1980.
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