What do you have to say about this, Fly? :-)
Jessie and Al will look for a money shake down angle.
The Onion? The source quoted by National Geographic was Orion magazine, which is, apparently, an environmentalist magazine. They can’t possibly have anything to do with the satire since radical environmentalists do not have a sense of humor.
I could see someone reading the article making a mistake like that, if they read it quickly without paying enough attention, but the author of a commentary on the so-called “issue” in question? That’s just pathetic, especially when the author of that commentary is citing the magazine and as a source. If I were an editor at American Thinker I would fire a writer for incompetence over a mistake like that and if I owned American Thinker, I’d fire my editor for letting that slip through. Sure, it’s not nearly as bad as Dan Rather or Jayson Blair, but I don’t think I could count on someone who was that careless in their work.
Boy, has Nat Geo gone south! I used to love that mag, but when they got on the global warming bandwagon, I let the subscription lapse.
But here's what's funny: I'm at a field house right now with nine other field biologists. One of the girls is half-black, and she's adorable and funny, BUT she's probably the worst birder in the group. At least, though, she wants to learn, so I'm helping her.
I will add this: in the American Southwest, there are very very few black birders. But there are very very few black people in the remote regions we survey for birds.
But racism? Ha ha ha ha ha! Nat Geo drivel.