Excuse if I don’t cry myself to sleep tonight, but Japan has failed to meet their whale slaughtering (scientific research? Hmmm, OK, so if we kill this whale, there is one less in the ocean… How about if we kill another? repeat ad infinitum) quotas this year. This hasn’t occurred in twenty years. Thanks to the anti-whaling protests at sea, the whalers have gone back to their home ports without as many whales as they had hoped for. Check out the story here.