.. to use a slightly different meaning of the word. I have been neglecting the blog for other work, but the PC minions of Animail Rites never sleep. In Solano County, California, activists have managed to enact a ban on open field coursing– chasing hares with dogs– in advance of the threatened legisaltion. A typical …
Month: April 2006
Hume’s Folly
My friend Timothy Hume, artist and breeder of flying pigeons and Welsh ponies, who lives on Saltspring Isalnd in British Columbia, has a new project. Welsh mountain ponies trace their ancestorship back through Hackneys to the Darley Arabian, one of the four foundation studs of the modern Thoroughbred. One of the latest scions of this …
Digesting Good Literature
Our friend Anne Hocker and her friend Richard Louv (author of Last Child in The Woods) forwarded this quote today, a Querencia gem: Mark Twain* on writing, travel, animals and…good eats? “In Syria, once, at the head-waters of the Jordan, a camel took charge of my overcoat while the tents were being pitched, and examined …
Real Life in Kamchatka
Just got this remarkable photo from Vladimir Beregovoy of a Kamchatkan feeding some very polite dogs slices of seal meat. Valdimir says “Steve and Libby, I just received this wonderful picture taken in Kamchatka. Local people feed their dogs. The picture is highly recommended for animal rightists.” The photo is by Arthur Chubarkin, a noted …
“New” Blog
My ferocious old friend David Zincavage has had a blog for a while and I didn’t even know it! Let me introduce you to Never Yet Melted.
Culinary Institute Grads
Also at O & P: Odious does not like Culinary Institute graduates. A sample: “I can only imagine the life of these graduates before they found their calling. Lying on the couch in their parents’ basement, dreaming of a land of Cocaigne with rivers of Mountain Dew and Cheeto-trees, inhabited entirely by girls — gone …
Bang!
Inspired by seeing “V for Vendetta” (conclusion : fun but not serious) Peculiar found this post by John Zmirak, proprietor of European Reactionary from Queens and author of the hilarious “The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living”, doubtless the only book blurbed by both chef Mario Batalli and Catholic priests that contains a roadkill recipe. …
Dog Confiscators and Castrators..
.. come to New Mexico. “AT A GLANCE . Key points of [ Albuquerque ] Mayor Martin Chavez’s ordinance: . Pet owners must have their animals spayed or neutered and microchippedby Dec. 31, 2007. . Penalties would start at $100 for the first offense, $250 for the secondand $500 for the third and subsequent offenses.” …
One for the Good Guys
Lousiana legislators do the right thing. “With little debate, the Senate voted 39-0 Monday for a bill that would prohibit police from confiscating firearms of law-abiding citizens in times of emergencies or disasters.”
New Creature, “I” D, and more
Also from Tom, a great new transitional critter between sea and land animals. Tom’s comment is worth reprinting too: “Thank God, literally, we Catholics don’t have to fool around with Fundamentalist Creationism crap. Anecdote: A friend of mine’s sister is a nun and the principal of a Catholic girl’s high school. When she found a …