Quote of the Day

This from Bernd Brunner, who has written a book about bears entitled. . . . Bears. I heard him on NPR on the Diane "Lady Death" Rehm show during the five minutes it took to get to work today. He was talking about how people need to be better educated when bears start repopulating into their communities, citing an example in Germany of a bear who was being harassed by the community through which it was traveling. Of the incident, he said (a scholar, mind you):

"It was a classic case of Bearanoia."

A new word that will be forever fixed in my memory.