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27 Oct 2010  |  the llama  |The Grill

It’s Hagfish Day!

WhaleTimes believes repugnant and slightly revolting animals like hagfish make great role models for highlighting conservation concerns for all marine animals. “Sometimes it seems as if ecological causes are popularity contests that exclude the less attractive and less well-known, though equally vulnerable, creatures,” said WhaleTimes Director Ruth Musgrave. “There are species in peril that kids never hear about.” Last year, Hagfish Day introduced many to the vaquita, a critically endangered whale few people even know exists.

Personally, I am all about saving the cute animals. The hagfish is ugly for a reason. It is dangerous:

Gone unchecked, hagfish could make the oceans of the world do the slime-equivalent of Ice-Nine.

Do not confuse the hagfish with The Hagfish!

25 thoughts on “Happy Hagfish Day!”

  1. monkeyball Oct 27,2010 11:43 am

    I endorse this wager:

    Loser gets Chris Daly

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  2. nanotrebuchet Oct 27,2010 11:44 am

    • andeux Oct 27,2010 1:31 pm || Up
      TINSTAAFK
  3. batgirl Oct 27,2010 12:07 pm

    Drat. I heard Goodman on KFOG on Monday and he said The Bastard Machine is his and will continue.

    • monkeyball Oct 27,2010 12:11 pm || Up

      Bummer/happy. Good move for Tim. Especially since he doesn’t have to relo.

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    • Soaker Oct 27,2010 12:26 pm || Up

      Glancing around SFGate today I’m not seeing any of those “This article is limited to the print edition and paid access until XXX” notices. Did they finally figure out that policy was causing their columnists to flee, and was generally a stupid business plan?

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
      • monkeyball Oct 27,2010 12:28 pm || Up

        I hope Curbed can offer John King a decent salary.

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  4. monkeyball Oct 27,2010 12:14 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  5. monkeyball Oct 27,2010 12:14 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  6. monkeyball Oct 27,2010 12:15 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  7. monkeyball Oct 27,2010 12:15 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  8. monkeyball Oct 27,2010 12:16 pm

    “Climate hawks” — I like it. (All the other ideas are awful.)

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  9. monkeyball Oct 27,2010 12:16 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  10. andeux Oct 27,2010 1:32 pm

    Happy HELLAween

    TINSTAAFK
    • mk Oct 27,2010 1:45 pm || Up

      Reading comment threads like that makes me think that in a million years, the raging debate among Earth-stationed Xywcomexian archeologists will be how humans managed to survive as long as we did.

  11. monkeyball Oct 27,2010 3:44 pm

    Beane: no announcements on Ellis/Crisp/Chavez until after WS

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  12. nevermoor Oct 27,2010 6:08 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Oct 27,2010 6:10 pm || Up

      Yep, but they always don’t actually care in ways that seem like they do care.

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  13. nanotrebuchet Oct 28,2010 7:43 am

    Very Important Baseball Matters.

    Lawyers – will the continuation be grandted?

    • monkeyball Oct 28,2010 8:22 am || Up
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  14. nanotrebuchet Oct 28,2010 8:39 am

    Old-but-interesting survey of world values.

    But America’s position is odd. On the quality-of-life axis, it is like Europe: a little more “self-expressive” than Catholic countries, such as France and Italy, a little less so than Protestant ones such as Holland or Sweden. This is more than a matter of individual preference. The “quality of life” axis is the one most closely associated with political and economic freedoms. So Mr Bush is right when he claims that Americans and European share common values of democracy and freedom and that these have broad implications because, at root, alliances are built on such common interests.

    But now look at America’s position on the traditional-secular axis. It is far more traditional than any west European country except Ireland. It is more traditional than any place at all in central or Eastern Europe. America is near the bottom-right corner of the chart, a strange mix of tradition and self-expression.

    Americans are the most patriotic people in the survey: 72% say they are very proud of their country (and this bit of the poll was taken before September 2001). That puts America in the same category as India and Turkey. The survey reckons religious attitudes are the single most important component of traditionalism. On that score, Americans are closer to Nigerians and Turks than Germans or Swedes.

    Of course, America is hardly monolithic. It is strikingly traditional on average. But, to generalise wildly, that average is made up of two Americas: one that is almost as secular as Europe (and tends to vote Democratic), and one that is more traditionalist than the average (and tends to vote Republican).

    But even this makes America more distinctive. Partly because America is divided in this way, its domestic political debate revolves around values to a much greater extent than in Europe. Political affiliation there is based less on income than on church-going, attitudes to abortion and attitudes to race. In America, even technical matters become moral questions. It is almost impossible to have a debate about gun registration without it becoming an argument about the right to self-defence. In Europe, even moral questions are sometimes treated as technical ones, as happened with stem-cell research.

    It would be interesting to see how things have changed in the last seven years.

  15. nevermoor Oct 28,2010 10:43 am

    Good for Krugman:

    When I read the Mitch McConnell quote that’s been getting so much attention. . . my immediate concern was whether it was taken out of context.

    Bad for McConnell:

    No, he sees it as evidence that they weren’t confrontational enough; they were too focused on their policy agenda, and neglected the necessary work of destroying Clinton:

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Oct 28,2010 11:30 am || Up

      Krug’s not thinking strategically enough: they don’t want to just destroy Obama — I might argue that that’s actually a smokescreen [awful pun sort of intended] for the larger/second goal — they want to destroy the economy and shred as much as they can of the safety net in order to improve their chances of retaking the WH in ’12. It’s the economy, stupid — yes, discrediting/destroying Obama is important, but smart politickers (and Boehner is one) know that for POTUS elections, it’s less about the person/ality than it is about the underlying economic conditions.

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