Mar 31
I think I’m going to start a contest for the most absurd/ironic/bizarre sentence to come out of the mouth of a human each week. I’d have to narrow it down to published sentences, just to be fair; I wouldn’t want…
Mar 30
Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals’ 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign…
Mar 30
As you may know, I’m a writer/ghostwriter/editor. That’s how I’ve made my living for over 20 years. My clients have always been a combination of experts who already have book deals with large publishers, and entrepreneurs who say Why on…
Mar 29
There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. And when I spoke about a continuum over a year ago as a result of a workshop with Rae Sikora, who demonstrated that there was a continuum, there…
Mar 28
“Two Animal Rights Conferences: Will you be there?” by Drew Wilson at Care2’s animal welfare blog has yet to have any comments about rights and welfare. I don’t know how big the readership of that blog is, but it is…
Mar 28
Project Treadstone If anyone in Palm Beach County wants to get involved in the Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) of feral cats, now is the time, as the county’s Spay Shuttle is back in business (but for a whopping $40/cat rather than the…
Mar 27
In “Council Bozos Want to Ban Circus Animals in City” Ellis Henican ridicules the New York City Council for introducing a bill to ban the “display of wild or exotic animals for public entertainment or amusement.” Henican writes: The truth…
Mar 26
A reader from Alaska sent the following e-mail, with his name, a nickname and phone number, and this is indeed a serious comment. Dear Ma’am, There is nothing wrong with bestiality unless the animal is being bound or forced, in…
Ian asked about the history of exploit and exploitation according to the Oxford English Dictionary a couple of days ago. I have another post in the works for today as well, but for now, here they are: I won’t get…
Mar 24
Late last night I received this message from Jenny Stein . . . I’m concerned about Maple Farm Sanctuary, whose founders are two of the seven subjects in our new film, and I was wondering if you’d be willing to…
Mar 23
So many things to say today. First, check out “The Vegan Solution: An Ideal Whose Time Has Come” over at Care2. And what do you think about the word “ideal”? But more important, commenter Daniel Manahan could use some gentle…
This one’s more like Good News for Mary Martin. I received a call yesterday from a woman who started a coalition for homeless cats. She said her Trapper Man could go to the Project Treadstone site–last night and this morning–and…
Mar 21
First, Little Black and Big Tom, one more time . . . Big Tom was the guest most anxious to leave my humble abode and was returned this morning, to a ghost town of a colony, with few cats in…
Mar 20
What the heck is Pahokee, you ask? If you click on this map, you’ll see. It’s a city in Florida on our largest lake, Lake Okeechobee. And if you click on a few minus signs to move out, and look…
Mar 19
Did you see that Newsweek editor David Noonan went vegan (see “I Can’t Believe I’m Still a Vegan”)? He clearly needs a bit of encouragement as he finds it “sort of a pain in the ass. And kind of boring,…
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