Will BuzzFeed create more vegetarians than PETA with one video?

You Decide:

From the mouths of babes...

South Park explains in 56 seconds why Cecil-the-Lion's murderer and other big game hunters are more likely to support (and to be) Republicans than Democrats.

Today's Fine White Whine comes from a Great White Rhino Hunter

The Other Big News Of the Month: Banksy in New York

"All pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those done outside."
-Paul Cezanne

Throughout this month of government shutdown and Obamacare's rollout, the city of New York is being treated to one new work by Banksy every day.  You can check on all the works presented around the city on Banksy's "Better Out Than In" website every day. Most, as would be expected, are static additions to walls and doors, but here's a video of today's rolling three-dimensional addition to the cityscape, "Sirens of the Lambs":


Brilliant. And thank god it's out on the streets and not stuck in one of the national museums that's been shuttered by the Tea Party since October 1.

As a bonus, here's another piece, from October 6, that appeared only as a video:

"The Romney Badger Loves to Fire People"

It's nice to end the day with a joke and a cute animal video.




I've got nothing to add, except to ask why the Romney Badger won't release its tax returns.

Seamus Romney

Seamus Romney gives us the anagrams of the day related to defecating in terror when riding on the roof of the family station wagon for 12 hours:

Seamus Romney = Name Your Mess

... or more appropriately, as Seamus's name becomes a rallying cry for animal lovers everywhere in this election year:

Seamus Romney = My Name Rouses

"The Mutt Romney Blues" video

Here's a Ry Cooder song explaining the story behind the new meaning of the word "romney":

"I didn't know there was anything wrong with that ... in terms of the law."
--Willard "Mitt" Romney 

SpreadingRomney.com



http://spreadingromney.com/



I'll be linking every mention of Mitt Romney to SpreadingRomney.com in honor of Seamus's ride to Canada on the roof of Mitt Romney's car.


Won't it be great when anyone named Romney is as incapable of Googling or Binging their own family name as people named Santorum?

A Holiday Shopping Suggestion

This chart explains why I'm doing all my holiday shopping here or here.

"... if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film..." another quote for the day

If there's any justice in the world, then Jonathan Safran Foer's first work of nonfiction (after the brilliant novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) will do to factory farms what Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did to DDT. At least it should turn a significant percentage of its readers into vegetarians and vegans. Or at the very least it will create more conscious eaters.

I finished reading this book on the train from work tonight. I couldn't return it to the library without sharing at least one quotation:

"Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory -- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals(p. 143)

But please consider reading the entire book. It should be widely read and it deserves to have a place in our national conversation.

TBL Helps You with Your New Year's Resolution (if your resolution is to become a vegetarian)

To reinforce your resolve to stick to a diet in twenty ten that's better for you and animals and the planet, you don't even have to read all of Jonathan Safran Foer's new book Eating Animals. Simply read this short article on AlterNet today: "Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef."
Actually, maybe you don't even have to read the whole article, just read the title of the article again.

You're Welcome.