- So Ends The NJ Bear Hunt

About 2PM on Tuesday by buddy Rob sent me a text asking me if I was Bear Hunting at that moment. The truth was that I couldn't make it this year, but when I was participating in the last one I was sending him and a few other guys IM's from the field.

That's one good thing about NJ hunting - you can bring your smartphone and browse the internet while you wait.

Still, it's not so bad...better than working anyway. I'm going to go out of my way to try to make it next year - but given my industry, the first week of December can be a tough week to be away.

The above video was great because it came from the Star Ledger's NJ.Com. I don't think there is a publication in the country that has a less blatant liberal bias, but is more insistent about it's absence. And although I'm sure they had hoped to show the hunters as bloodthirsty psychopaths and the protesters as well intentioned 'conscience bearers' of the community, they couldn't manage it.

Instead, both were depicted pretty accurately in my view. The hunters were numerous, respectful and saw themselves as engaged guardians of nature while the protest were few, psychotic, and barely lucid enough for a conversation on the topic. Sounds just like real life to me.

If I didn't know better I'd say the Start Ledger was actually trying to be fair. But that's an idea I've been burned by many times before so I'm going to wait for a little more evidence before I go jumping to any crazy conclusions.