This bubbled up into my sphere because of it's impact on me professionally -- which is to say, not directly, but because his organization and mine could be said to be competitors. It slid across my digital desk with comments that amounted to 'look what that moron has done now.'
It's questionable whether the elephant needed to be shot. Perhaps there was a better, more humane way of dealing with the problem. Perhaps there wasn't. But regardless, the video is rather tasteless, and the fact that he put it up on his blog for the world to see -- really, Bob? What were you thinking?
Handing out Go Daddy hats to hungry villagers was also a nice touch.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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