So Much News, So Little Attention

Alaska approves shooting of wolves because the moose population is down, and subsistence hunters can't kill enough moose to feed themselves. Nevermind that human hunters are unlikely to target the weak or old wolves, like nature would. Several protesters dressed up their dogs in fake bullet-proof vests.

St. Louis doctors protest skyrocketing insurance costs They want insurance reform. I don't know their side of it, but I think insurance reform is a good idea. Rates should be reasonable, and malpractice awards should also be reasonable. Some juries are far too generous. I could fill the page with insurance ranting, so I'm stopping here.

In a lovely case of Not In My Backyard, toxic US ships may have to turn back from their destination. 4 WW2 era ships were bound for an English scrapyard, but Great Britain doesn't want them. President Clinton had outlawed the sale of mothballed ships for scrap overseas both because of the environmental hazards they posed to ocean waters and because of growing public concern that toxic wastes were being shipped to developing countries where workers were inadequately protected from exposure to poisonous chemicals.
But the Bush administration won a waiver from its Environmental Protection Agency to send the ships overseas.

Also, India has become a toxic dumping ground, thanks to big corporations shipping their jobs overseas. With production, comes toxicity, and India's laws are more lax than our own... even with Bush in office. That's just sad.