Never have radical Greenies over for coffee. They’ll break your coffee table and feel no shame.

So here’s this story from Seattle from a few months ago…

A cleanup crew with divers spent the morning picking up pieces of anchor and cable left from the initial Shell protests in May. The cement anchor blocks and steel cables were left behind from the Solar Pioneer protest barge. Divers say they damaged a dive park and a protected habitat.

The job cost approximately $10,000, according to Koos du Preez with the Seattle branch of Global Underwater Explorers, a nonprofit aquatic conservation group.

…let me translate this into they-don’t-deserve-diplomatic language: Once upon a time there was a bunch of spoiled-brat environmentalists called Solar Pioneer who went and defecated all over the place, because nobody has ever taught them how to be considerate of others. In this case, the defecation did actual damage to the environment, and made it harder for people to enjoy the wonders of the natural world.  So the people who had to clean up after Solar Pioneer’s mess had to go talk to the evil, evil Shell corporation that Solar Pioneer was screaming at in the first place, because Shell has money and functional adults, while Solar Pioneer has neither.  Shell of course cleaned up Solar Pioneer’s mess for it, and nobody in Solar Pioneer is likely to be capable of understanding just how awful they are.

Moral: there’s something to be said for a parenting license.

…Tell me I’m wrong about that moral. Go ahead. Tell me.

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, I’m wrong about that moral.  Still.  Geez.