The news is not good in Santa Cruz today. We're in the fourth day of a bus driver job action that has significantly slowed mass transit. The first homicide of the year occurred yesterday. And the University wants to cut down three redwood trees to make way for parking spaces. Is this really three more homicides? Many tree huggers would think so.
Ordinarily, I'm opposed to slaughtering trees. Because it definitely has an environmental impact on me -- if you know what I mean. But the University doesn't allow dogs on campus. So it doesn't affect me one way or the other.
A University spokesman notes that the trees are only 12 years old. Like that makes it OK? If three 12-year-old kids were going to be cut down, you can be sure there'd be a firestorm of protest. Besides, tree years aren't the same as human years. And I should know.
Want to know more about this outrage? You can read about it in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
I've got to pee now. (But not on University redwoods.)
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