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Over at John Cole’s place, everyone is watching the Katmai Park live bearcam. So I watched too, and it’s clear that Katmai Park needs a smarter breed of bear. I watched for a few minutes, and during that time I saw a couple of dozen salmon leap up the falls in the foreground while the adorable young bear just stood around in one spot oblivious to the fact that all the fish were elsewhere, laughing at him. I feel certain this is a metaphor for something, but I can’t quite think of what. Help me out.

UPDATE: Victory! (For the bear, anyway. Not so much for the salmon. But I’m rooting for my fellow mammal.) This must be a metaphor for yet something else. Perhaps that bears know more about being bears than I do? It may have taken a while to snatch breakfast from the jaws of defalls, but then again, what does a bear have besides time? It’s not as if he needs to finish up fast so he can get back to Judge Judy.

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