Personal Dork Assistant

It's not easy being green

You know, I recycle as much as I can. I drive a fuel efficient car, instead of a fuel-guzzling (but tax efficient) monstrosity. I try not to order chilean sea bass (a.k.a. the Patagonian toothfish) at restaurants. I'm willing to give composting a try if I move into a house instead of an apartment. But now they're going after dried shark fin. Yes, I know killing sharks only for their fin is gruesome and wasteful. Even with the overfishing, shark fin soup is expensive and frankly, the sharks' fin doesn't actually add any flavor to the soup. It's more of a texture and body thing. On the other hand, it's usually a really good bowl of soup, too.

Damn it, it's not like we eat tiger penis or rhino horns, which probably don't even taste that good. How about we save the sea cucumber instead? I can get by without eating sea cucumbers.