POSEIDON'S STEED

OK, this was a VERY REASSURING READ.  I guarantee you ladies will like it.


This book, by the aptly-named marine biologist Helen Scales, ISBN 978-1592404742, is now out in paperback and easily obtainable through any of the respectable book channels.  It is meant to be a poem to the loveliness of the elusive Seahorse, and in some ways I guess it is, but what she mostly talks about in here is how the Shaved Monkeys exploit any population of the operatives they can find for ridiculous medical purposes -- and of course the scarcer they get, the more urgently people want them.


NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING REASSURING TO US IN THE PLANNED DESTRUCTION OF YET ANOTHER LARGE GROUP OF OPERATIVES.  Don't get me wrong!


I have to admit, I was also a bit worried at the statistic she threw out there stating that one in three people on the plant believes in, and relies on, Traditional Chinese Medicine, which she abbreviates to TCM.  Know that else TCM stands for?  TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.  Which is about what Seahorses are facing as long as out of three Shaved Monkeys continues to see Seahorses as a virility tonic or aid to painless childbirth.  (Is there NOTHING these people DON'T see as a virility tonic?  Idjits.)


What's reassuring in here is that even a marine biologist who has spent every spare moment looking for Seahorses since she was a child appears to know very, very little about them.  Where to find them, how they got there, what they are up to -- ALL OF THAT IS A MYSTERY TO THE NAKED APES.  They can't even figure out nice, clear ways to make sure they stay numerous and happy, which is pretty typical of their tufty selves.


It also appears clear that some Naked Apes -- not all of them our operatives -- are working to make sure that Seahorse are preserved, little realizing that every one of them, in the ocean or in a tank somewhere, is reporting STRAIGHT BACK TO US.


So basically, I'M SATISFIED WITH THE FINDINGS IN HERE.  THE LESS THEY KNOW, THE BETTER.