[...] Anyway, Ms. Harrington has a blot from Friday on “Fall Internships” [Link] that provokes some contemplative reverie – again! I have to admit that I have an incomplete grokkage (sorry! Robert Heinlein, blame it on Disney and Ron Stoppable.) of what an intern means these days. In my youth, an intern was a physician who had completed formal education and was now engaged in informal, but exceedingly demanding, practical education preparatory to taking the licensing examination. Attorneys did similar things but they were called clerkships – a very different animal than what clerk normally meant. [...]

You wouldn’t have wanted to use napalm. Its basically jellied gasoline and using it would have incinerated vegetation, birds, and all. If you used a defoliant – like Agent Orange – you would have just removed the leaves so you could see the birds. And if the trees survived the winter they would leaf again the next year so every five years or so you could repeat the process. Also, defoliants are often mutagenic and psychotropic so you would also be generating new subspecies and strange behavior, all contributing to employment as an ornithologist rather than reducing it.

@ Simple Country Physicist: Again, I can’t manage an intelligent reply to your comment because I’m laughing. And, respecter of avians though I am, I was well aware of what napalm would do to the birds (and the picturesque San Juan Island). Imagining the smoldering remains was the catalyst for my epiphany regarding not-so-much with the ornithology. In a twisted way, I do sort of wonder about the defoliant and new subspecies…

–Alexa

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