Secular Apostate

Tim Blair’s readers can turn a phrase, can’t they?

He’s responding to the news that Germany’s favorite polar bear cub, now a Carnivorous maximus, ate some pet fish.

Well, OK. Not exactly “pet” fish, but most certainly innocent fish who were just minding their own business and noshing on algae.

Germany’s celebrity polar bear Knut has triggered a new controversy by fishing out 10 live carp from his moat and killing them in front of visitors.

Critics say Berlin Zoo should not have put live fish inside Knut’s enclosure.

There is speculation that hand-reared Knut killed the carp just for fun.

Well, he probably did kill them just for fun. Knut’s idea of a tasty morsel is a baby harp seal (Phoca brigittebardoticus). So I presume fish would be like, well, sprinkles. And who hasn’t dipped a wet fingertip in a cookie bag to get a nice coating of the sprinkles that migrate to the bottom? Just for fun, you know.

Now I agree that disemboweling live fish may seem crude to the Western envirophilicus effeteicus eye, but Knut is from a different culture. A culture where bloodlust is the highest good. And who are we to judge?

So lighten up on Knut, OK? Unless Al Gore is able to destroy modern civilization and the global energy economy, poor old Knut may be the ursine equivalent of the Last of the Mohicans. Or so they say. “They” being, of course, the panty-wetting greentards.

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