Animals also have rights. Animals also do not want to suffer. They want to be treated humanely. They want to receive love and affection. And they certainly want to live out their natural lives. They do not want to die or be killed before their natural end. This is also their right. - Garda Ghista
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Their Tears
May 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Abominable Speciesism · Animal Liberation · Animal Suffering · Animals & Environment · Ideological Combat · The Logical Misanthropist · Toxic Culture
The steer who escaped into our conscience
July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
BY RALPH R. ACAMPORA
July 22, 2007
The story many Long Islanders have followed during the past few weeks of an escaped steer on the North Fork whose notoriety landed him a refuge away from the abattoir gets more perplexing the more you think about it. From a strictly agribusiness point of view, of course, the fugitive […]
Tags: Animals & Environment · Obstinate Conscience · The Logical Misanthropist · Toxic Culture
Why We Don’t Vacation Like the French
July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
BY EZRA KLEIN | Dateline: July 19, 2007
Poster for Jacques Tati’s Hulot, the hero of VACANCES DE M. HULOT, who at one time epitomized the French idiosyncratic vacationer | Originally posted at THE AMERICAN PROSPECT
How come Americans don’t take a month off every summer, even though we’d like to? Blame it on individualism.
The most […]
Tags: American Way of Life · Europe Matters · Toxic Culture
Why We Don’t Vacation Like the French
July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
BY EZRA KLEIN | Dateline: July 19, 2007
Poster for Jacques Tati’s Hulot, the hero of VACANCES DE M. HULOT, who at one time epitomized the French idiosyncratic vacationer | Originally posted at THE AMERICAN PROSPECT
How come Americans don’t take a month off every summer, even though we’d like to? Blame it on individualism.
The most […]
Tags: American Way of Life · Europe Matters · Toxic Culture
Die Stupid
July 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments
BY JOHN STEPPLING
Dateline: July 2007
Inpolite, infantile question: With so many American supermen of Scots-Irish ancestry, I don’t understand how the Irish don’t control the world already…
“There is an underscoring of collective anxiety in this film, everyone, from ordinary citizen to wonk- defense specialist, all seem nervous….even before anything jumps off. It is portraying a […]
Tags: Cinema & Television · Imperial Policy · Pathetic Idioten · The Logical Misanthropist · Toxic Culture
The Delusions of the Last Rightwing Remnant: Freerepublic.com
July 18th, 2007 · 8 Comments
BY MICHAEL D. RECTENWALD
Originally published by The Rec Report / Citizens for Legitimate Government
Only a small minority in the United States maintains an unwavering faith in the administration of George W. Bush. Most of the country has finally discovered Bush and his ilk are liars, thieves, incompetent hacks, and mercenary madmen. Only a few true […]
Tags: CJO'S OpEds · Imperial Policy · Pathetic Idioten · The Logical Misanthropist · Toxic Culture
What Lies Beneath: Privileged Grotesques, Ordinary Monsters and the Iraqi Deathscape.
July 12th, 2007 · No Comments
BY PHIL ROCKSTROH Dateline: July 12th, 2007
At present, George W. Bush is unpopular with the majority of the American public not because of the murderous mayhem he has loosed in Iraq; rather, his standing has plummeted due to the fact that he didn’t deliver the goods. Americans are fine with fueling our republic of road […]
Tags: CJO'S OpEds · Corporadoes · Imperial Policy · Pathetic Idioten · The Contemptible Media · Toxic Culture