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We can’t trip over a Facebook status message without being reminded that today is Earth Day. Local food blogs The Arugula Files and FoodieTots are using the occasion to promote Blog for the Bay day, an effort to get local bloggers to link to a Chesapeake Bay Foundation petition urging the EPA to take action to meet a goal of cleaning up the bay by 2010. They also suggest posting a favorite story, memory, or crab recipe related to the Chesapeake Bay while you're at it, so we'll take the initiative to endorse one of our favorite local summertime activities: a trip to the Maine Avenue Fish Wharf, followed by a picnic in East Potomac Park. Ask the right vendor for a dozen mediums and, 20 minutes and less than $20 later, you’ll have a bag full of 20 steamy, spicy little guys. It's all more than enough to make us want to do our part to save the Bay and save the crabs. Then eat ‘em.
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I can't believe you would think we commenters would associate with bottom crawlers...
I'm not surprised. We DO troll around the muddy bottom of postings, ripping apart the deliciously tasty inaccuracies and ideological spins our beloved copy writers sometimes partake of. That, and we're all constantly awash in Monkey's poo.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas. While covered in Old Bay.
Both of you are right, I spoke too soon.
Today's Earth Day?! I thought it was always on 4/20.
cleaning up the bay by 2010? in one year?
i mean, god, i'd love that to happen, but that's just insane.
I was going to comment on that originally.. obviously it's not a realistic goal.
But the goal was set back in 2000, when it probably did seem realistic (and maybe it truly was, I've no idea).
And if EPA is going to set a new goal of 2020, that seems to just be moving the goalposts. So while I think the petition is slightly misguided (demanding someone meet an impossible goal is silly), ultimately they do have a point.
There was a great 2hr piece on FRONTLINE/WETA last night about the Chesapeake Bay. The whole thing is now online.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters/
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is a disgrace... They're ineffectiveness and inability to find a pragmatic approach has allowed the bay to continue to decline.
Saving the bay has always been a deeply twisted political issue. From the need to regulate farm waste in the Shenandoah Valley to mine leakage on the susquehannah to chicken coops on the eastern shore.... The bay's pollution comes from several jurisdictions and several entrenched constituencies. I've been signing stupid petitions, planting trees and doing waterfront cleanups for almost two decades now, but am sick of being sold the idea that these little do-gooder activities do anything to save the overall health of the bay.
For years, the CBF has ignored the political game, which is where all the marbles lie. The polluters are extremely well entrenched in the Maryland, VA, WV, and PA statehouses.... while the CBF does nothing. They don't even have a C4 wing, much less a PAC. If they're not going to play the actual game they should shut down and let another organization take over the disaster that's happened under CBF's watch.
ugh, sorry for the mistakes/typos - long, long day.
Wait a minute. You ask for a dozen and they give you twenty?
Gotta love our edukayshun sistim.
I'd just call it a "crabbers dozen." It's the guy across from the soda machines in one of the smaller stalls (though it seems like they all work together). He seems like a relic from the past, just someone who was born to be a fishmonger and from the set of an oldtimey movie. I love that guy.