Tales Of The Smirk…(continued)
Via Field and Stream…
The Bush Administration announced last week that the nation is no longer losing wetlands–as long as you consider golf course water hazards to be wetlands.
Really.
Thursday (March 30), Interior Secretary Gale Norton called a press conference to claim our long nightmare of wetlands loss had finally come to an end due to unprecedented gains since 1997 (click hear to read the report she cites). However, she then admitted much of that gain has been in artificially created ponds, such as golf course water hazards and farm impoundments.
The sporting community–from Ducks Unlimited to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership–reacted quickly, and not favorably.
I’ll bet not. Next they’ll be saying that global warming is on the decline, because worldwide sales of air conditioners are up.
May 5th, 2006 at 4:37 am
Happy Cartoonist Day Bruce! *party hat* *streamers* *toot!*
And, hey, golf courses are part of the natural environment, aren’t they? They have trees and stuff!
May 5th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Hey…Thanks Willie! Happy Happy to you too! Wish I’d heard about it sooner, I’d have done a little something for the blog. I’ve been meaning to do a "How A Cartoon Happens" thing. Like Howard Cruse has up on his blog…here…
http://www.howardcruse.com/cruseblog/2006/03/how_a_drawing_happens.html
A little something to encourage others to give it a try if they want. One of my favorite political cartoonists, David Low wrote once that his cartoons all took three working days to produce. "Two days spent in labor, and one day spent removing the appearance of labor." Everyone has their own way of getting from idea to finish. I’ve always loved to see how other artists do their work.