Maggie's Farm

A fascinating little side note on sharks and dolphins: my husband wrote a book on sharks that was published a few years ago. Among the fascinating species within the genus was a shark called the 'cookie-cutter' shark which does attack other denizens of the sea from smaller whales to dolphins. The 'cookie-cutter' cruises up to the side of a dolphin, opens its round mouth and takes a neat, round chunk out of the hide of the other animal. Just like a cookie. If the animal is big enough, it doesn't kill it. Later on, if the animal is killed some other way, it may be found with numerous 'cookies' taken out of various parts of its hide.

There's an analogy here, I think. Wanda Sykes, who has discovered that it's lots easier to pick on the Big Guys who aren't even there at the party than it is to take on some really Big Guy who's tougher than she'll ever be, but too courteous to respond to her cookie bites, could learn something about decency from this.

But she won't.

Marianne