Blubber Soul

Sir Paul and Heather McCartney are wearing out their welcome in the Great White Northland (aka Canada) with their campaign to highlight the clubbing of seal pups.

The celebrity couple visited an ice floe off Newfoundland where hunters soon will begin the annual bludgeoning and shooting of the pups before skinning them.

Paul and Heather want the Canadian government to "take swift and decisive action to end the slaughter of these defenseless seal pups for good."

Their pontificating prompted this response from Elitest Slacker:

I wish that someone would club him over the head. We, as Newfoundlanders, kill lots of animals: rabbits, moose, ducks, codfish. The latter is almost completely exterminated, and I don't see any famous people complaining about that. Why? One word: cuteness . . . A codfish isn't cute. It doesn't pull at the masses' heartstrings in quite the same way as a fluffy baby seal does, now, does it?

Meanwhile, BC Tattler writes

Get back, Paul McCartney. Perhaps the former Beatle should inject himself into those areas [like Iraq] spend some dollars to assist the hundreds of thousand left homeless, maimed and orphaned by Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush.

Ouch!