the Voice of Steely

[Murthy Yenamandra]

ckaratnytsky at nypl.org writes:
>      [...] The piece, called "Beetle Mania," (and co-authored 
>      by another kickass journalist, James Ridgeway) is all about the risk 
>      posed to American trees, already beset by fragility and decline, by 
>      some nasty little buggies in the Asian longhorn beetle family.  (The 
>      beetles have been hitching rides to the US in logs imported from 
>      overseas, in typical Byzantine business fashion, by American timber 
>      companies.) [...]

Just a sign of the times, all these Third World Threats to Global
Ecology invading everything! Everywhere you look, it's Asian beetles,
Asian milfoil, African killer bees, Mexican this and South American
that! One longs for the days when North America and Europe were net
exporters of pests to the rest of the world and scandinavian albino rats
ruled the earth! I think I'll have an orgasmic fit!

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in
that gap all human sadness lies." - _Blue Dog_