Senseless Asshole Department:

One of the original California Condors brought from the wild into a captive breeding program in the 1980s has been found shot dead in Kern County, California. While there were only 15 California Condors left in the 1980's, there are now 79 birds in the wild in California and Arizona and 118 in captivity at the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo. This kind of thing makes absolutely no sense to me at all ... hopefully the moron who did this really felt nearly euphoric satisfaction. To learn more about the California Condor, go here, and to read about the release of this particular bird, go here.