There have been a lot of scandals involving professional sports figures in recent years. But the federal indictment of NFL quarterback Michael Vick (of the Atlanta Falcons) on dogfighting charges is in a far worse league than the latest steroid abuse flap.
Here’s what the email I got from the Humane Society of the United […]
Entries Tagged as 'Humane Society of the United States'
Dogging Michael Vick
Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 19th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
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Roundup: Return of the Mouse Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 15th, 2007 at 10:54 am
BOOKS: This week marked the release of Armistead Maupin’s new book Michael Tolliver Lives, which picks up the story of Michael “Mouse” Tolliver, the iconic character from Maupin’s Tales of the City series. Mouse is now in his mid-50s, living with HIV but happily married. Maupin says, “I wanted to tell the story of a […]
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Seals, Global Warming, and the Canadian Seafood Boycott
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Canada is gearing up for its brutal annual slaughter of baby seals, setting its highest quota ever at a time when the seal populations are also threatened by climate change.
Harp and hooded seals rely on the presence of sea ice, on which they give birth to and nurse their pups. But over the past […]
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Puck Soup: Wolfgang Puck Gets a Shiny New Conscience
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 6:07 am
I haven’t exactly been a fan of Wolfgang Puck, to put it mildly, because in the past he’s been a major promoter of animal cruelty — he bears a lot of responsibility for the popularization of foie gras over the last few years. I give his restaurant in Evanston a wide berth, and have been […]
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