We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.
So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.
This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.
We noted how the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, which had introduced grass carp into Lake Conroe to fight hydrilla, was now holding a fishing contest to kill most of them because they’d done their job and now threatened other species.
It seemed a vicious circle, and one reader was all for it.
Thenonymous wrote:
They need to dump a shitload of poisonous carp-eating snakes into the lake. That’d show ’em what for!
This article appears in Jun 16-22, 2011.