Net hunting dead before a shot is fired

YOU KNOW that feeling when you've heard a story and then thought, nah, I must have just dreamed it?

Well, after you've read this, hit CTRL-T in Firefox, or whatever you do in some other browser, and go to WSJ.com, scroll down and click on a story titled Internet Hunting Has Got To Stop - If It Ever Starts. Or just click here but y'all come back real soon.

Anyhow, it turns out that the US is banning hunting via a browser. Apparently, the idea of remotely shooting real animals from a mouse click was mooted way back but faded under the understandable disapprobation of the public. That doesn't seem to be stopping the American politicians from stopping something that never happened. Strange days indeed, most peculiar momma.

Hats off to Zachary M. Seward: great name, great story. We just hope that when the Journal is in the hands of the Dirty Digger, there will still be room for this kind of stone-dry, ultra-wry stuff. µ