It may seem funny to you, but to the policeman it was a great ca-lamity!

David Kirsh
Durham, NC


>"Sea Gull drops Clam on Policeman.--The habit of sea gulls to carry clams in
>their talons to a considerabble height and drop them on a hard surface to
>break, so that the bird can feed on the bivalve, nearly proved disastrous to
>Abe Loche, a former policeman of Atlantic City, N.J.
>        Loche was walking along the Boardwalk when one of the gulls flew
>high above him and dropped the clam directly on the man's head. He fell and
>had to be carried into a nearby drug store for treatment.--Boston Globe."
>

"Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so […]. Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency—the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.”--Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)

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