It's working! My Husband, the Whale has moved up a slot and now sits as the seventh most popular emailed NYT story. I'd sleep easier if it were in the top five, but I'll take seven. Remember, we're going for length of time on the list, not at any specific spot. Although top ten for fifteen years would be sweet. But it's one day at a time.
If you feel like this isn't worth doing, just remember some advice from the story itself:
The central lesson I learned from exotic animal trainers is that I should reward behavior I like and ignore behavior I don't.
Ipso facto ... if the story stays on the list, YOU GET A REWARD! I'm not sure about ignoring behavior I don't like because I'm pretty sure that's how we got a psychopath in the White House but if the people who train Shamu - people who can get the animal to flop around a tank that's too small and isolated for his emotional and physical well-being - say it's the right thing to do, then I'm all for it.
Today I'm emailing the story to Bill O'Reilly ([email protected]) and Joe Scarborough ([email protected]). They need to keep up on this kind of stuff.
Its a tremendously offensive and sexist article. You'd probably be better e-mailing it to a woman. For some reason they eat that stuff up.
Posted by: DavidByron | July 22, 2006 at 11:41 PM