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There was an op-ed in the Seattle Times today by a former city council member who strongly opposes the keeping of elephants in zoos. This is part of a movement lead by a bunch of well-intentioned hippies and Lily Tomlin. Really, what they want to do is get rid of zoos in general.... And I wouldn't think any more of them than I do every other group of well-intentioned, poorly informed hippies that hangs out in the public dialog except that I have to walk through a crowd of them once every year on my way home because I have to go past the zoo. So, they irritate me a lot more than, say, PETA.