What’s that you say? A cat lady on the Upper West Side? How weird.
My Cats or My Future Baby?
Barf on the floor
Poop on the floor
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Archive for the ‘Animal rights’ Category
Felix the Cat & Blackface
Posted in Animal rights, Popular culture, tagged Art Spiegelman, blackface, John Updike, Niall Ferguson, racism on August 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Snorting has greeted Niall Ferguson’s new column, which begins like this:
President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the Cat. One of the best-loved cartoon characters of the 1920s, Felix was not only black. He was also very, very lucky.
But aside from derision, Ferguson’s comments deserve some analysis. There is a reason why Ferguson, when he [...]
The most apropos news photograph never taken
Posted in Animal rights, Environment, Media, tagged dead whale, ExxonMobil on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
June 3/09 (Reuters): “Dead whale found on bow of Exxon tanker in Alaska”
Oh, how the entire PR unit of ExxonMobil must have gone to bed on Monday night praising God that no photographer happened to be hanging around the terminal the day that tanker came in. But while this particular image-as-metaphor will apparently have to [...]
New Herriman Website
Posted in Animal rights, Popular culture, tagged George Herriman, Krazzy Kat on January 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Worth a look: a new website devoted to George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat and, arguably, the greatest cartoonist of all time.
Suicidal Tendencies
Posted in Animal rights, tagged advertising, animals on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Why do so many animals want to be eaten? A new blog investigates. (Hat tip: Erik Marcus.)
Russian Animal Rights Orgy
Posted in Animal rights on March 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The museum where the orgy took place.
Not safe for work; not safe for the home; not safe at all: here’s a link I’m hesitant to pass on. Via the great Doug Henwood, a blog account, complete with very graphic photos, of an animal rights rally and orgy that took place at a Russian Biology Museum. While making [...]
Charles Murray and “Liberal Fascism”
Posted in Animal rights, History, U.S. Politics, tagged Charles Murray, Jonah Goldberg on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sans Everything is a blog that supports animal rights. So it seems amiss for me to keep beating the same poor broken-down horse, whether it’s dead or alive. Still, there is one last comment to make about Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. [...]
Science Fiction and Empire: Part the Second
Posted in Animal rights, Arts and Aesthetics, Literature, Popular culture on November 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
As soon as you write down an idea, you start to realize how it needs to be qualified, expanded, and generally revised. Blogging helps this process along by giving you commentators who jump-start new thoughts. In my earlier post I suggested ways in which science fiction, a literature thematically obsessed with encounters with the alien, was [...]
Wayne Pacelle
Posted in Animal rights, Personalities, tagged California, HSUS, Wayne Pacelle on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wayne Pacelle, reading cockfighting magazines, in 2004 (Photo: Washington Post).
Wayne Pacelle may be the single most effective advocate for animals in North America. Since becomming head of the Humane Society of the United States in 2004, he has turned that organization into one of the most powerful animal protection organizations in existence. Pacelle avoids the [...]
Snoopy as a Sex Machine
Posted in Animal rights, Arts and Aesthetics, Literature, Popular culture on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Globe and Mail has just published my review of David Michaelis’s Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. I’ll have more to say about this book in the next couple of days, but in the meantime enjoy the review. Here’s how it starts off:
For Snoopy, 1970 was the summer of love. In July of that turbulent year, the [...]
