The SalmoFan? [The New York Times site requires registration, sometimes. But it's worth it for out-of-towners, just for the priviledge of reading Paul Krugman's and Maureen Dowd's columns every week. And if you want to read, see, or hear anything, anything in the media regarding the appalling, on-going famine in Africa, you have to read Kristof].

Where was I? Oh yeah. "'We've come to the point of view where we view these [salmon] farms as hog lots or feedlots of the ocean,' said Jeff Reardon, the New England conservation director of Trout Unlimited." I've decided to eat only lobster. It tastes great (with drawn butter, of course), isn't farmed, is pretty cheap these days, and (related to that last point), the lobstermen (and women) of the Northeast are hurting. [ed., But aren't lobsters bottom feaders?] Hmmm, perhaps you have a point there

Today's correction of the day from the Gray Lady herself: "An article on May 17 and a correction in this space on Saturday about a study that found that drug testing in schools does not deter drug use referred incompletely to the views of a sponsor, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. While Dwayne Proctor, a senior communications officer of the foundation, initially told The Times that testing was "an appropriate tool for identifying kids in need of treatment," the organization has since disavowed that view and says it has taken no position."

How can they take no position? It's either a deterrent or it's not, and I'm guessing the latter. And I'm guessing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has come to the same conclusion, but it's bad for business to say the unmentionable.

We now know that you can't believe everything you read in the Times ("Except for Dowd and Krugman," Andrew Sullivan did not say). I always assumed, like everyone, that when the bi-line said Apalachicola, the reporter was really there, not waiting in line at his or her favorite Krispy-Kreme while an uncredited freelancer phones it in.

I don't think this story quite matches the Jayson Blair story, though, but it keeps the blogosphere humming, and isn't that what it's all about?

Rumblings among the Greens. They've been disabused of the notion that there's no differences among the Republicrats, and are considering -- horrors -- supporting a Democrat in 2004. Just not Gephardt or Leiberman. But they're leaning to Kucinich?! Didn't he use race-baiting to get elected in his heavily Catholic, white district? And his evolving stance on choice is amusing to watch. The CommonDreams crowd is even beginning to lose faith in the guy.

Speaking of Greens, an interesting piece on Michael Moore (thanks to Altercations for the link). I don't agree that theater and entertainment can't make for good politics. It's just that for Moore, it's all about the bullying and the confrontation. Or, more accurately, it's all about Michael Moore.

And, finally, the Yankees. Hopefully last night (the Yanks won 11-3 over the Sox) is the real deal and not an aberration. The Yankees have these slumps every year, and they are always two or three games behind the Red Sox in June...and usually eight up over Boston at the end of September. I'm not panicking that the $180 mil club is going to lose the division, but the interview with the estimable Allen Barra on BronxBanter, did have me thinking. But then again, Barra, not to his credit, sounds a lot like the guys freaking out on the sports call-in shows ("They gotta make a trade!" "Jeter can't extend his arm!").

All the teams who started hot have cooled, even the powerhouse KC Royals.

Michael Kay, the Yankees' TV announcer had an interesting aside regarding Hidecki Matsui, who was signed as a no-field power hitter, but has proven to be a great fielding singles hitter (when he hits). Kay asked Ichiro when the Yanks played the Mariners earlier this year, whether Matsui was a power hitter in Japan. No, said Ichiro, they've got it all wrong. He's a line drive hitter.

Apparently those line drives make it out of Japanese ballparks, but not Yankee Stadium's death valley of a center field.