David Z (see below) sent us the latest on Hari Scam and and, amazingly, it is even more ridiculous than what has gone before. “Among the mixed-bag films at Tribeca this year, Thorkell Hardarson and Örn Marino Arnason’s Feathered Cocaine was arguably the most mixed. Alan Howell Parrott, an American Sikh convert, introduced falconry to …
Tag: decline and Fall
Found Object
From the PO floor. I’m not sure what is funnier or sadder– a company that advertises usurious loans to people on welfare, or that it continues the process after it appears to know the subject is dead, even if it can’t spell “deceased.”
BEE Inbreeding!
I know that there have been a lot of furious discussions over DOG inbreeding. But now it appears that the honeybee crisis may well be BEE inbreeding!
Latest idiot news
A prep school destroys its library. “James Tracy, the current headmaster, finds the whole idea of a library, and the objects they traditionally contain, positively quaint. Speaking to The Boston Globe, he actually said, apparently without embarrassment, “When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books.”” They really did it: …
Another AR Outrage
In Philadelphia, from David Zincavage at Never Yet Melted. He quotes from the Border Collie Bulletin Board: “The local SPCA raided Wendy’s Willard’s kennel where she keeps her Murder Hollow Bassets on Monday night. They arrived with seven trucks and two police cars & informed her that one of her neighbours had complained about noise. …
Guns, Freedom, threats to…
According to David at Never Yet Melted the last elections had one mighty ironic effect: “Americans responded to the election of a democrat-dominated federal government by buying enough guns in 3 months to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian Armies. We also bought 1,529,635,000 rounds of ammunition in the month of December 2008 alone.” That’s …
Latest AR threat
HB 669 is one of the worst proposed laws yet against the ownership of animals, and would totally outlaw the breeding and transfer of ANY species deemed”exotic”. Ostensibly authored by representatives from Guam, whee they have a real problem with brown tree snakes, it would shut down the pet industry and much of falconry (NAFA …
Uprooted
An article in the Telegraph tells how a leading children’s dictionary has dropped words relating to religion, history, and the countryside. “But academics and head teachers said that the changes to the 10,000 word Junior Dictionary could mean that children lose touch with Britain’s heritage. “”We have a certain Christian narrative which has given meaning …
New Links & More
Sorry for light posting. Matt and I have both had deadlines (and his office is moving) and you probably know how busy Reid is already. I am writing some material that COULD lead to something big so posting after today will still be lighter than usual, though I’ll try to get in a review or …
Food and AR News
In Oakland you can have an actual farm, pigs and all. But in Chicago, the banningest city in the US (pigeons, foie gras, handguns), HSUS wants to compel you to cut off your dogs’ gonads. Of course they say it is a good thing. The Sportsman’s and Animal Owners Voting Alliance thinks differently: “The distorted …