Yeah, that's the height of irony, isn't it? Blood on their hands by proxy almost every day of their lives, yet they freak out because the Governor General participated in a Native ceremony and ate a bit of raw seal heart, thus showing she has an open enough mind to do something a little unusual in terms of her own life, but quite appropriate to the culture of those people she is visiting. Good for her.

Some people must really have a desperate emotional need for something to get upset about, seems to me...so we have another media tempest in a teapot to keep the Canadian news people busy for a few days. Ho-hum.

But I saw a chart a few days ago showing the average levels of aquatic life in today's oceans. The entire northern hemisphere and central oceanic areas have been largely emptied of the great profusion of life that existed there a century ago. The only oceans that have not been severely damaged by over-fishing and pollution at this point are the most southerly ones down toward Antarctica. It's a catastrophe, and it's being caused by humanity.