Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Zoo closure moment...

The President of Zoo New Emgland John Linehan seems to have set a new local record for sheer stridency...he seems to think Governor Patrick will be putting on a pith helmet and loading his elephant gun to go euthenizin' big game at the Stone Zoo.
The state legistlature may be crammed with slack jawed crackers to a man, but they are a famously sentimental bunch so I doubt Jerome the Giraffe will have to start reading coffin catalogues or anything.
The Stone Zoo and the Franklin Park both weathered similar cutbacks under Bill Weld sans recourse to the electric chair.
Of course, while the interests of zoo animals will be secured, I do wanna remind my gentle readers (all seven of you) that we still have homeless combat veterans wandering the streets and byways of the Commonwealth.
In fact the whole mishaugas brings this olde National Lampoon cover to mind:

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