POLAR COLLAPSE

From boingboing - "A Washington DC train station was shut down for a couple hours recently as a bomb squad investigated this "hobo polo bear" standing near a trash can. Turns out, the stuffed animal was part of a collaboration between Greenpeace and prankster artist Mark Jenkins."



One of the boingboing comments - "When society starts to spontaneously generate scenes identical to what could be found in a Hieronymus Bosch painting it is time to either join in or run like hell."

Meanwhile, polar bear habitats continue to deteriorate due to global warming, and the federal government refuses to list polar bears as an endangered species. VP candidate Palin was fighting to keep them from being listed as endangered well before her VP nomination. You can read her op-ed piece in the NY times. Here's what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has to say - link.