New Year, New Name, New Vow

Happy 2008, Readers.

We've decided to start the new year off with a new name (i.e., one that's more marketable than the old one), and a new vow. The editor wants us here at the Cynics' Salon to bring your tongue-in-cheek accounts of our world and culture every day. However, we're not all that diligent, so we're only going to commit to three days a week. If we do more, we do more, but the writing staff is fairly confident in our ability to produce three readable pieces a week. Let's say...Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, shall we? Enjoy us with your mid-morning coffee...or fruit juice if you're not a caffeine junkie.

For today, consider this: the two brothers who were mauled in the Christmas Day tiger rampage at the San Fracisco zoo were allegedly found carrying slingshots, and an empty bottle of vodka was found in their car. Now we're not going to make any allegations, but we merely wish to ask why a person would need a slingshot at a zoo. Draw your own conclusions.
And if it indeed was the intention of these young men to taunt a Siberian tiger (and we're not saying definitively that it was), what did they expect to happen?

Food for thought.

Cheers!

Lockhart