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November 30, 2009 01:15 PM EST --
I met a girl in bearface
stealing berries
in a field where the carnival had been
she ran when I reached for her
but not before
she kissed
my outstretched paw
. . .
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April 13, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
If you're as sick as I am about hearing the name Don Imus, please feel free to skip this. Personally, I'd rather have a root canal than listen to Don Imus for five minutes -- or any of the . . .
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February 05, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
I just thought everyone should see this one. It really exemplifies what I mean when I say that dogs are citizens in every way that matters:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16952774/
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January 31, 2007 02:59 PM EST --
Last week I published a thought experiment intended to stimulate thought about animal rights:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976895184
For such a short piece it received a good . . .
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January 31, 2007 01:49 AM EST --
It's not like I really need to buy more music, I thought. But there I was at Fred Myers bargain music rack picking off one of the in-store coupons that promised three $6.99 CD's . . .
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January 26, 2007 03:35 PM EST --
A number of major news agencies are reporting another horrific attack in Baghdad today:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC125722.htm
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC125722.htm
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January 26, 2007 01:00 PM EST --
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position. -- Christine Stevens . . .
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January 24, 2007 09:25 PM EST --
I usually hate the local news shows, but this is a great story that I found by accident. I had to call the rescue people to give them my thanks.
http://www.komotv.com/home/video/5326146.html?video=pop&t=a . . .
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January 19, 2007 05:26 PM EST --
It was one of those moments we can only dream of in a post-modern world. A moment with the purity of a Zen Koan, requiring no commentary, only contemplation.
Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, appearing . . .
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January 18, 2007 06:42 PM EST --
I should make it clear, up front, that I'm not a Mark McGwire fan. I don't really have anything against him -- I was just never very interested in him as a player, . . .
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January 13, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
In the novel Illusions by Richard Bach, the highly enlightened messiah, Donald Shimoda, is called to task for borrowing one of his pithy sayings from Snoopy the Dog. A tad peevishly, Shimoda replies, . . .
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January 10, 2007 04:47 PM EST --
In the novel Illusions by Richard Bach, the highly enlightened messiah, Donald Shimoda, is called to task for borrowing one of his pithy sayings from Snoopy the Dog. A tad peevishly, Shimoda replies, . . .
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January 10, 2007 12:15 AM EST --
For the past few years most of my reading has been non-fiction, in various fields ranging from US history to dog training to evolutionary theory. When I have turned . . .
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January 10, 2007 12:06 AM EST --
For the past few years most of my reading has been non-fiction, in various fields ranging from US history to dog training to evolutionary theory. When I have turned to fiction, . . .
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January 08, 2007 05:59 PM EST --
The end of last year I finally made a decision to stop eating meat and to become more aware of how the products I used were manufactured, whether they were tested on other animals. . . .
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January 08, 2007 01:27 AM EST --
Ikkyu writes of drowning
in Samsara.
Today I am a poor Bodhisattva
treading water.
My attachments are
without number
and the sword
of my wisdom
has no edge.
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January 04, 2007 11:17 AM EST --
At the very end of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” there is a great scene where government officials assure Indiana Jones that the Ark-of-the-Covenant is being studied by “top experts”, . . .
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July 31, 2006 10:19 AM EDT --
by Olin Elliott
In the past week I have had two experiences -- one directly and one through the media -- which greatly upset me. The first was reading an account, on the World Society for the Protection . . .
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February 09, 2006 11:48 AM EST --
Callisto's Orphans
I met a girl in bearface
stealing berries
in a field where the carnival had been
she ran when I reached for her
but not before
she kissed
my outstretched . . .
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