Frogs on their last legs

Up shit creek without any frogs!

Frogs have been leaping across the front pages of a number of newspapers over the last coupla days, as we learn that the planet is pretty much doomed - apparently, and to nobody's great surprise, most frogs will be extinct any time now, and this is serious since they are particularly sensitive to external factors, and changes to their environment - unlike, say, George Bush, who, along with corporate America couldn't give a shit about the environment, unless his little friends stand to make money out of it, by sucking out some oil.

An analogy which I like here is that of canaries being used down coalmines, as an early warning system to alert miners to poisonous gases - the dying frogs are absorbing all the crap in the waters of the world through their thin skins - they're a wakeup call for a sleeping world, with a rhino-thick skin.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=572318