Posts Tagged “whale wars”Originally yellowed at SomaCow.com
3D TV Originally washed ashore at SomaCow.com In this hour, I rant about the beach, we discuss Ross’s role on the show, and we somehow talk about the Death penalty.
I’ve been watching the Whale Wars, on Animal Planet, of late. The show consists of whalers from Japan trying to hunt whales, and mainly Australian conservationists trying to stop said whalers from doing their work. I am not sure who to be more irritated with. On one hand, whales are immense, beautiful creatures, mysterious and glorious in their very existence. They move through our oceans like ghost ships, and the sighting of one is truly an amazing sight, filling many with fear, exhilaration, and even joy. The Nipponese want to hit that with a pointy ‘poon, haul it on board, carve it into delectable bites, and sell it for ridiculous amounts of yen. On the other hand, the environmentalists are smug, self-important twitbrains; their good intentions are drowned by their pathetic inefficiency, wide-eyed self righteous indignation, and sense of self-importance. Each toss of “rancid butter” they throw, each failed effort to “foul the prop” or whatever silly non-violent methods they employ to basically ruin the Jap’s livelihood seem childish, ineffectual, and entirely con. The whalers are killing beauty, the hippies are criminally smug and I could find a thousand uses for them over “whale defending”. It occurs to me, the difference being a mammal truly makes. We thrill to each lift of a potfull of King Crab, yet the same scope pot killing just as many whales would shock and horrify us. Is it the whales scarcity that makes them beloved? Their massive size? Or the fact that they bear live young, look kinda cute and scary, and don’t resemble a lovecraftian horror the way a crab does? I am amazed at the Japanese whalers’ patience. If I were at work, and some hippy bastard threw rotten butter into my cubicle, I would respond with a flame thrower or a pipe bomb, not a freaking water spray and Long Range Acoustic Device. It’s a great show, if you like watching mewling infants punch their impassive stone-faced moms in the boob repeatedly. Nowhere near as great as this hour of SomaCow, though. +5 points to an Tags: animal planet, comedy, deadliet catch, death penalty, internet, orlando, Podcast, radio, somacow, talk, whale wars |
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