Apparently, the grizzly bears of Yellowstone Park are about to come off the Endangered Species list. It doesn’t sound like a great idea to me, but as my knowledge of these issues is close to zero, I’m not the person to say. What I do know is that this explanation for a coming bear purge, reported in the First Post is, well, nuts:

Tom, an old friend from war-reporting days, now teaching at New York’s Columbia University, has another theory. “It’s part of the culture war, a way for Christian Conservatives to take out their fear and anger on nature,” he explains. So the bears will pay for the Republican humiliation over Hurricane Katrina, a force of nature that blew the wrong way.

Oh dear.