We hated the way he constantly discussed what his clothing would have cost somebody who didn't have a perpetually post-college slump sister who worked a seemingly endlesschain of men's retail jobs.
Faced with collapsing fish populations, whether the disappearance of the cod fishery on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland or the failure of the North Sea herring fisheries, the reaction has been one of half-hearted measures: too little done too late in a chain of endless procrastination excused by the need for ever more scientific research.