stephenbuhner I love the idea that "plants show the same care for offspring that animals do." Can somebody make an animation video of this and put it on youtube?

@36-you hit it right on the head! Boing! That way you teach the company a little lesson, get some money for being put out, and STILL get to alert other buyers (as well as Amazon) to the questionable business practice.

Or then again, you can just post your story on your website and then have it picked up by boingboing--boing BOING!

The bottom line is that the company has a policy problem and they likely won't fix it until they're called on the carpet, which has just happened.

But also Amazon has been worked over too on this blog so now maybe Amazon will pay more attention to this problem.

Do we all win?

Alas, poor Bugs, I knew him well.

It is amazing to think that average viewers back in 1958 sat still long enough and thought hard enough to watch one of these episodes. I just can't imagine the majority of viewers today tuning in to an intellectual program like this. I wish I could but I can't.

I think people today have been conditioned through careful manipulation (as Huxley would say) to expect that TV's primary purpose is to entertain with minimal thought. Thus people think if they're starting to feel bored, it must not really be something they should pay attention to because if it was important enough, media moguls would've put more money into the entertainment value. The reverse of that: if it's high-energy, high-tech, full of beautiful people and stirring music, gee it must be something really worth while!

I don't know about you, but this is how I want to be remembered.