Archive for the 'Animal rights' Category

Helplessly watching the destruction

One of the enjoyable things we did on our recent vacation was to visit the San Diego Zoo, which is really a most impressive place that I can recommend to all those who find themselves in that neck of the woods. The Zoo covers 100 acres and has thousands of plants and animals from [...]

Anti-evolutionary thought

We were in some nature preserves on our vacation.  In each place, on every informational placard, at least half of the material presented was about the fact that this plant or that animal is going extinct.  Other species are moving in and destroying the whatever it is.  We must stop it!
It all makes for very [...]

A PETA moment in San Francisco

This post doesn’t actually have anything to do with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but it falls in the genre of people elevating animals over humans — hence the post title.
If you’re at all familiar with San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, you know that it is an extremely urban park.  It’s a strip [...]

Making the world safer

When Dianne Feinstein starts wading in the partisan political waters, she as icky as the next politician. When she puts her head down and does her job, I often like her:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California proposed legislation Friday to crack down on animal rights activists who make threats or commit violence against [...]