Cute but concise: a “saluki” opposes mandatory spay- neuter in California.
Tag: Nanny State
NYT on NM Cockfighting
I am sorry, but I think this article on NM’s anti- cockfight crusade can be quoted to make its own argument against the ban. “After two weeks of preparation, 150 officers, backed up by a helicopter, slipped into this sleepy desert town. Their focus was not illegal immigration or drug smuggling, but a less pressing …
Heller
Maybe– 2 1/2?– cheers for the Heller decision. A lot of people still want to load it with enough restrictions to make it meaningless, but at least the principle is affirmed. Funny how so many people want the WRONG interpretation to be kept– even though most scholarly opinion, including that of such honest liberals as …
Quote of the Week
In Comments in the post “At War with ARistas?” Patrick writes irresistibly: “Aerial shots of the yard show some rubbish, which is not a good thing to be able to see from outer space (I’m just saying). “ I mean, I’m all for Yard Cars in Magdalena, especially as “Yuppie Repellent”, but I hear ya…
At War with ARistas?
I usually think it is not quite this bad yet, but when Phyllis McDonald sent me this from the UKC I nearly choked. RTWT, but here is an excerpt. “Robert Attleson lives in Littleton, Colorado, where he and his long-time partner, Melissa, raise English Setters. In addition to breeding and showing dogs, Bob is active …
New Links
Blogging will continue to be a bit light as I am busy, am trying to get outside, and have Chas and Miss M coming tomorrow. But the world keeps producing the fascinating and the maddening… Science fiction giant Arthur Clarke died this week. John Derbyshire has a good quirky remembrance of him here. I think …
Links
More and longer and prettier soon, but here is the usual presentation of friends, foes, follies, and gallimaufry, not to mention science.. Which first: a very old bat. (Zimmer has also devoted a new site to his collection of “Science tattoos”. Love that Archaeopteryx!) The long- distant migrant known as the red knot is in …
Links, Apologia…
If I can ever finish the saga of my completed but yet…unfulfilled?.. book, it will be a good one, or at least a lesson in the vagaries of contemporary publishing that would fulfill every cynical belief of Michael Blowhard. It has been that kind of month. Meanwhile, links and various photos. Science and nature: Paleoblog …
It begins again
Congressman Lloyd Levine introduces mandatory spay- neuter in California again.
Dog News Around the Web
The California Mandatory Spay- Neuter bill may be on hold, but affluent Huntington beach wants to enact an ordinance of its own, complete with microchips. “Competition dogs” ie show dogs–see below– would be exempt but at higher fees. Also: “The council asked that the program’s annual cost to the city be no more than $50,000 …