Fox in the Henhouse Redux

Another bureau chief, another trip to Bizarroworld. From the Nation comes this par-for-the-course revelation. Maybe we can get ticked-off conservationists and sportsmen back into the Democratic fold:

Matthew Hogan, the new acting director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service--the agency charged with regulating the big-game industry--is himself a former lobbyist for Safari Club International. As a celebrated trophy-hunter, Hogan's past qualifications include targeting the Africa Big Five (leopard, elephant, lion, rhino, and buffalo), the North American Twenty Nine (all species of bear, bison, sheep, moose, caribou, and deer) and the Big Cats of the World. "To complete all 29 award categories," the Humane Society explains, "a hunter must kill a minimum of 322 separate species and sub-species--enough to populate a large zoo."