Several folks are clamoring for something a bit more frivolous. So here’s two different fun dog videos and several panda videos to sooth your raw emotions.
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Faunasphere: Hundreds of Millions Saved
Great news to end the week, Juicers! In his excellent book The Better Angels of Our Nature—which makes good summer reading or listening, btw—Steven Pinker writes about Europe’s 18th and 19th century “humanitarian revolution,” the period of moral evolution during which people stopped indulging in such cruel medieval pastimes as recreational torture, dueling, cat-burning, and …
The Sad Mess in Cincinnati
As your liaison to the Faunasphere, I feel like I have been remiss by not posting something about the incident in Cincinnati. I guess I didn’t because the whole situation is just too depressing and it also didn’t seem right to post about it during Memorial Day weekend. Also because I wasn’t sure if I …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Pets Get to Come into the House!
Or so the goat would tell you. From “occasional commenter” Isobel: This is Shit the Goat. He is named Shit because we are constantly saying “Oh shit, the goat’s in the house!”. The puns truly write themselves with that name. He is a six-month-old male goat who is very friendly and likes to lay on …
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Clinton Launches Animal Protection Campaign Page
Kudos to Hillary Clinton for launching an official page on Protecting Animals and Wildlife. It’s short on specifics (the very thing Clintonistas like to rap Sanders for), and the free trade policies she’s enamored of directly undermine environmentalism and animal welfare in many ways, including: supporting fracking allowing imports of unsustainably produced meat (e.g., from …
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RIP The Prince of Compassion
Along with his many other excellent qualities, Prince was a vegan and supporter of animal causes. He wrote the song “Animal Kingdom” for PETA. Excerpt: “No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity No member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing 2 me It’s why I don’t eat red meat or white …
What About Blotchy?
By now you’ve probably heard of Inky, the New Zealand octopus who conducted a daring overnight jailbreak. He apparently: slipped out of a small gap at the top of his tank “scampered eight feet across the floor” slid down a 164-foot-long drainpipe swam to freedom The Times, whose style book apparently favors “octopuses” over “octopi”, …