Eat or Be Eaten

More work on the work front this morning: now that the political appointees are getting settled into the Commissioner's Office here at Division of Administration (also know as DOA--appropriate), calls are being made to fix the usual stuff. Spent the morning mostly re-installing local printers like the truly awful G85 All-in-One Office Jet. DON'T EVER BUY ONE--they're garbage. Still, I managed to get over to CrawlingWestward for Louisiana News. Here's what Timshel had to say regarding the Resident's visit to the Big Easy.

Short version: Katherine Blanco accompanied Bush from the airport to the D-Day Museum fundraiser, although there is no word on the extent to which she was forced to grovel. Bush raised some $140 grand from roughly seven hundred donors shelling out two thousand dollars apiece for lunch--sounds like the normal take over at Antoine's. One hundred and fifty protesters were confined to an area two blocks away--don't know if it was Lee Circle, but that's roughly the distance between the two sites. They burned an effigy of Bush, and carried two anti-war signs. Good for them.

Bush also pledged to support more faith-based initiatives while speaking at United Bethel AME church in the city. Faith based seems to be his position on the war these days: if he just doesn't talk about it, maybe it will go away...

The Pic article that Mr. Prado links to also notes the much larger protest in Atlanta. Here's the New York Times take on the Atlanta actions. Meanwhile, in Iraq, enough concern has been raised over the treatment of "detainees" that an official investigation is being launched, according to CNN.

But this is the article that my title refers to. Also in the New York Times, it reports on a census to be taken of Tigers in the border region between India and Bangladesh.

Years ago, I shared an apartment with two Indian students. One of them told me of seeing the stories on the television news about "man-eating" tigers. Often it would take several victims--and "man-eating" is a misnomer, because the victims were more often women--before an "official" investigation was launched. Usually the hunt consisted of a soldier or two tracking the animal, which makes sense because most Indians don't have guns. And, as Ashish said, "Sometimes, they'd get the tiger--but sometimes, the tiger got them."

I'll be posting more later, after I've caught up. One thing I need to finish is John Chuckman's article in Counterpunch yesterday, then I want to get back to CrawlingWestward and link to the Salon article he mentioned.