Quit trying to cheer me up …


I see that the national news outlets - not to mention the blogosphere - have picked up the story about the Bonny Eagle Commencement brewhaha. First it was the topless coffee shop story, and now this. It seems like Maine is becoming a carnival sideshow for the rest of the nation …
“Last year, according to USDA wildlife biologist Adam Vashon, 53 raccoons with eyes as big as piping plovers were trapped and dispatched via a single shot to the head with a noise-suppressed, .22-caliber rifle. Meeting similar fates were 19 skunks, eight foxes, 12 crows, 12 great black-backed gulls, three porcupines, three opossum and two woodchucks.”
Source: Portland Press Herald …

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