Just when I thought we’d escaped the threat of Armageddon with the passing of Bush, I find an article like this -

Ornithologists rejoiced when a Worcester’s buttonquail - long thought to be extinct - was caught and photographed on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines! Then they discovered that it had been sold in a poultry market and eaten!

WOW and double WOW! Do ya laugh or cry?

That ghastly story reminded of yet another Monty Pythonesque tale by Dave Barry:

Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently eliminating oppression and violence all over the entire Earth. You decide to:

a. Present it to the president of the United States.
b. Present it to the secretary general of the United Nations.
c. Take it apart.

Ever really wonder about things like this?