Something Smells Of Fish

In the news today:

In Rotterdam harbour, seven containers full of whale meat have been waiting for transshipment for over three weeks now. The Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Mrs. Verburg, described the situation as “highly unpleasant”.


(Of course, Verburg was referring to the bizarre discrepancy between the international ban on whaling and the regular transshipment of whale meat through European harbors. But it struck me funny… nonetheless*.)

* Don’t you just love how Bernard Shaw says “Nonetheless” in Lord of the Rings?