[Hegewisch Dupa]

Three things that immediately come to mind:

1 - Have the criteria for endangered species been tweaked a lot recently? If it's easier to qualify for the classification, naturally there will be an increase. It's like when the medical community redefined diabetes. Instantly there was a huge increase in diabetics - as though people were healthy on day, sick the next. Also, as we redefine and find new sub-species, the overall number of endangered species should increase in response.

2 - Difficult if not impossible to figure out what nature 'wants' to happen. Extinction is part of the plan, although of course we often cause it where it would not have otherwise occured. But often tough to distinguish.

3 - Hope y'all enjoyed Mary Lou Retton's 36th b-day Saturday.

[xsmommy]

did mrs dupa make a cake for the family celebration at home? good point on the classification changes, wonder if i can verify that somewhere, it is a throwaway assignment, not like they are going to look closely at it, but i do want him to do more than just regurgitate the expected response. Yes, CG, just what i told him, kill people instead of animals, bc they are the problem.