Motus Mentis

The NBA’s New Orleans Hornets are changing their name. They are going to become the Pelicans, and apparently many of their fans think the new moniker doesn’t sound fearsome enough.

They ought to know better, says Deadpsin’s Barry Petchesky. He has written a lusty defense of the pelican’s ferocity, including the sentence “The pelican might be the world’s best-designed killing machine.” He has also embedded several videos amply confirming the pelican’s viciousness. It is one nasty bird.

Longtime readers will recall that we noted the pelican’s savagery right here in these pages, way back in 2006.

Read Petchesky’s article here. (Warning: NSFW.)