Slimy and Spineless

Ooh, it's pop quiz time -- You don't even need to turn in your paper. Can you guess what this reporter is referring to?

They have no backbone and their slimy bodies are made up of more than 90 per cent water but they threaten to turn beaches into no-go zones within two decades.

Okay, I realize it is so tempting to say the answer is Democrats, but, for this one time, that answer would be incorrect. The correct answer is jellyfish, a close relative of the Democrat!

Huge amounts of jellyfish have forced the shutdown of nuclear power plants in Japan, already hit by the earthquake and tsunami, Scotland and a coal-powered plant in Israel in the past few weeks.

And a sustained explosion in the population of jellyfish throughout the world's oceans has the potential to be "quite catastrophic" if it is not checked, said jellyfish expert Dr Jamie Seymour from James Cook University in Queensland.
~ from Jellyfish, With Numbers Increasing From Warming Waters and Pollution, Force Shutdown of Power Plants by Glenda Kwek ~