Aug 19
Not since the debacle that was the 2000 presidential election (watch the film, Unprecedented, for details), have Floridians seen such cajones on the part of a certain group interested in a certain result in an certain election (wink, wink, nudge,…
I didn’t want to have to talk about this again, but on NPR yesterday afternoon I heard an interview with a man who hunts alligators (the season opened here in South Florida this week). For your personal edification, hunters cannot…
Aug 17
Please don’t e-mail me to call me crazy. I just wonder about the whole notion of “conservation.” In Saving Sumatra’s Wild Orangutans (NPR, 8/7/06), Michael Sullivan writes that people in Sumatra see orangutans as “pests, or pets–something to be controlled…
Aug 16
While watching the news on ABC yesterday, I saw a commercial for Primetime’s new series, “Outsiders.” The ominous-sounding narrator said, “Americans living way outside the norm,” and the visual showed Timothy Treadwell a.k.a. Grizzly Man, doing his thing with the…
Talk about a conundrum. I’m an Animal Person who’s also an environmentalist (a Green Animal Person, maybe? That needs a hyphen somewhere.) and I need a new car. Easy, right? Prius. Done. Oh wait, remember those two 80-pound Greyhounds I…
Aug 14
Here in South Florida, we have a bit of an alligator problem. Today, Brian Skoloff (AP) once again tackles the issue, in “Nuisance Alligators: Biologists, activists try to strike balance of protection between humans and gators,” and even quotes yours…
As always, Dan Piraro delivers with his biting commentary of politics, religion, and, of course, our relationship with nonhuman animals. BIZARRO and Other Strange Manifestations of the Art of Dan Piraro isn’t a mere compilation of cartoons. Piraro chronicles his…
You’d think that because I’ve ghostwritten a dozen books on financial planning, the first thing on my mind when writing about boycotting China because of their mass slaughter of dogs would have been: Go through your portfolio and sell companies…
My favorite new tactic when speaking with people about animal rights, is to move the conversation away from the animals, and focus instead on the advancement of people. I’m not referring to technological or economic advancement, but to our progress…
Aug 10
Everyone’s writing me, understandably upset about China’s mass dog slaughter. What can I do? I’ll tell you, but you might not like the answer. First, you immediately stop buying things made in China. This is an educational experience for most…
For some reason, the folks at LiveScience.com thought it was a good idea to have an ugly contest, where they’ve posted what they think are the two-dozen or so least attractive animals. To make this insult even more entertaining, you…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post called “Chinese Want to Become ‘Civilized.'” Then last week, the Chinese government beat 50,000 PET dogs to death over five days rather than vaccinate them against rabies, as reported by every…
As you may know, when I adopted my second Greyhound, Charles Hobson Booger, III, I wondered if he should be a vegetarian. He had the Big D from day one, so I thought his food was the problem. Luckily, my…
Huh? My cousins live in Princeton and I have friends in Westfield, so I’m in New Jersey at least a couple of times a year, and I aint never seen no hide nor hair o’ no rodeo. But in today’s…
RAISING THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM: What Animals Can Teach us About the Social Origins of Tolerance and Friendship, is a rare gem in the nonfiction animal book-world because its (bestselling) author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, is a true Animal Person. Masson isn’t…
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