for a change, some straight talk about nonhumans

"They're saying we're endangering the trees when they're planning to chop them down," he said. "It's a big joke."

No joke for the trees, unfortunately, which the speaker, Zachary Running Wolf, "a former Berkeley mayoral candidate" is helping to protect from University of California Berkeley officials who want to cut down a grove of oaks to build a new sports facility.

Read it all: Get out of the trees, judge tells Cal sitters in today's San Francisco Chronicle.

["Wolf in the Garden" by Doug Millison]