Saturday, February 16, 2008
INTERSPECIES SORRY DAY DEMANDED
This week’s apology isn’t enough for Michael Leunig:
One day we must surely get down on our knees to every lizard and frog and orchid — and weep an apology.
You go first, Mike. It might take a while; Australia has 114 species of gecko alone. Will Aborigines who ate lizards and frogs be forced to apologise to the Eaten Generations? How will Labor staffers know if an orchid is turning its back, and when to join in? Should Kevin Rudd be counselled for encouraging violence against plants? This could get complicated.
What are we doing now, with all conviction and zeal, that will require a “sorry” in 50 or 20 years?
Leunig still hasn’t apologised to the pro-war columnists and bloggers he wrongly suggested were behind 2006’s Iranian cartoon hoax. On your knees, duckboy.
UPDATE. An earlier version of this post linked to an image of an orchard instead of an orchid. I am truly, deeply sorry.