the Voice of Steely

[Ted Samsel]

> 
> 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!

Don't forget water hyacinth, fahr aints (fire ants), nutria, etc.. from
South America... but we have introduced raccoons into Austria & the
Czech Republic..... ain't revenge suite?

And as for an orgasmic fit; don't you take a 7 and 7/8ths?

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