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January 28, 2014 Demosthenes

A Vegan Dog, Really?!!!

From the always entertaining and sometimes aggravating whitewhine.com: There are few things more likely to make me go apoplectic than people who don’t treat

January 23, 2014 Demosthenes

Dear Northeast Media, STFU!!

… sincerely, Michigan and probably also Montana, Colorado, Wisconsin and much of the upper midwest. So much of the northeast is in the grips

January 22, 2014 Demosthenes

On Non-Animal Personhood: Animals Don’t Have (Human) Rights

In an io9 article discussing scientific ideas that need retirement, Steve Fuller completely misses the point about animals rights: The fact that claims to

December 18, 2013 Demosthenes

Violence’s Uses Toward More Perfect Unions

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article on Mandela and Question of Violence is really worth reading. In it, he takes to task those people who would condemn

August 20, 2013 Demosthenes

US Aid is the Bane of Egypt

Daniel Larison makes the case for cutting off aid to Egypt. The most credible objection to the call for suspending Egypt aid that I

August 12, 2013 Demosthenes

The Humors of the God(s)

Phil Plait would be loathe to endorse a religious turn-of-phrase for such a ridiculous situation but as far as I’m concerned, surely, the God(s)

August 9, 2013 Demosthenes

Kick Rocks, Jamaat

Welcome news from Bangladesh via the Economist: A High Court in Bangladesh ruled that the country’s biggest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, is unfit to