MADISON, WI [ LINK : AP ] You always hurt the ones you love.

Intent on rooting out evil, a bunch of nuts in this branch of the Earth Liberation Front went out on a limb for their cause, and now, they’re the fall guys.

Okay, that’s all I’ve got. And if you don’t like the puns, leave.

Sorry.  Had to get that last one in.  Oh man, I love me.

Anyway, I don’t pretend to understand how destroying some 500 trees helps to save the planet, but then, I don’t get how somebody rolls out of bed (or cot, or sleeping bag, or dumpster) in the morning preoccupied with the notion that:

a) there’s an entire planet that needs liberating; and b) vandalism is the key to said astral body’s salvation.

Look, you long-haired hippie-freak boneheads… I’m with you insofar as I don’t think we need a U.S. Forestry Service, and if you come up with a smarter and less malicious way of eliminating that department in its entirety, you’ve got this mini-archist’s support.  But all you did was give them an excuse to hike my already obscene tax bill by a few gajillion more dollars next year to buy them new Jeeps and to plant more friggin’ trees.

They get bigger saplings, and I, as a taxpayer become a bigger sap.

Thanks for nothing, Flower Child…