Giggle! Snicker and Snort! To some hunting or use of the word is naughty and therefore they opt to use what they would consider a less “harsh” word, like substituting the word harvest for kill.
Fred Aun of the New Jersey Star Ledger tells us that the Corzine Administration of New Jersey, one that is anti-hunting has decided to rename “Bear Hunting Areas” with “Bear Management Areas” because they think this somehow better represents what goes on in these areas.
But Aun says:
If hunting is just another word for management, then banning a hunt is the same as failing to manage. And failing to manage is a nice way of saying “being irresponsible.”
So, this is pretty cool! We started out with “Bear Hunting Areas” and Corzine has morphed them into “Bear Management Areas”. Aun says that if hunting is just another word for management and banning a hunt is “failing to manage”, then shouldn’t we then rename these areas “Bear Mismanagement Areas” or “Bear Management Failure Zones”?
Perhaps we should also take this another step and make some adjustments to Corzine’s administration. Saying that Corzine “administers” is not really telling people what goes on in that area, so maybe we should try “Corzine Management Area”, which is really “Corzine Hunting Area”. But we know Corzine doesn’t hunt, therefore we should also call this the “Corzine Mismanagement Area” or the “Corzine Management Failure Zone”.
Isn’t it fun to play with words? After all, this is a far more important thing to do in a “Mismanagement Area” than actually doing your job.
By the way, the number of complaints lodged by the people of New Jersey about black bears has grown from 128 in 2008 to 508 this year. I think we need to go back to the “Bear Hunting Areas” and kill bears, then we could return also to the “Corzine Administration”.
Tom Remington
