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.)
Archive for the ‘Animal rights’ Category
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 | No Comments »
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 | No Comments »
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 | No Comments »
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 [...]
From Ayn Rand to Animal Rights: An Interview with Henry Mark Holzer
Posted in Animal rights, Personalities, tagged Henry Mark Holzer, Santeria on October 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The following two-part interview is one I originally conducted for Herbivore, an animal-rights magazine based in Portland, Oregon. The magazine declined to publish it, for reasons they never shared with me. Given that Herbivore readers were the original audience, most of the questions focus on animal issues. However, I am posting it here on the [...]
Henry Mark Holzer Interview: Part Two
Posted in Animal rights, Personalities, tagged Ayn Rand, Henry Mark Holzer on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ayn Rand postage stamp, released in 1999.
For part one click here.
Do you remember the context in which Rand made her (surprisingly sympathetic) comment? I don’t take you to be trying to turn her into a posthumous champion of animal rights. Yet her remark would seem to suggest she was not as dismissive and hostile [...]
Frontiers of Justice
Posted in Animal rights, Philosophy on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Martha Nussbaum
Here is a version of a review I wrote of Martha Nussbaum’s book Frontiers of Justice. Although I wrote it last year, it has just been published now in the journal Philosophical Books. Nussbaum writes so much so fast, I see she already had another book out before my review appeared!
My original draft included [...]
Animal Fair, Animal Foul
Posted in Animal rights, Philosophy on October 7, 2007 | No Comments »
I recently wrote a “three for thought” piece for The Globe and Mail, discussing three books about the ethical status of animals. It seems to have now disappeared behind a paywall, so here it is again.
Proponents of Animal welfare has a new hero in Tre Smith. Smith, as everyone knows, is the Toronto Humane Society [...]
