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I want to share an interesting article with you that I think you'll see pretty quickly what this is driving at.

It's called bees or fish and other fake narratives.

Bees, as in the kind of buzzing bees, bees are fish and other fake narratives.

This is by Andy Kessler.

It's in the Wall Street Journal.

And he's a writer, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

He says, a friend recently told me, he asked the management

at a vegan restaurant, why they didn't have honey on the menu. It's from an animal, so it's not

vegan, he was told. He tried to explain that honey isn't part of a bee, but instead nectar that

bees carry back to a hive mixed with enzymes, heat, and dehydrate, exasperated, he finally said,

it's bee barf. And the author says it's not, but it isn't prime rib either. He didn't win the

argument. I mentioned this, he says, because last month, a California court ruled that bumblebees

are actually fish and can be protected by the California Endangered

Species Act. This is as silly as the Environmental Protection Agency trying to define puddles

and drainage ditches as navigable waters. Yes, they were saying that a puddle should be regulated

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