Sometime in the early 80s, Barney Frank was suffering during one of those interminable end-of-year round-the-clock sessions when junior Members were often dragooned into presiding…
From Overheard in New York: Girl #1: So, you’re a vegetarian? Girl #2: Yep. Eating animals kills. Girl #1: Wait, but you had sushi the…
Some of my favorite blogs have been in a tither over this: Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of…
Many illustrations of the Last Judgment and Resurrection depict animals regurgitating human parts (the illustration for this post, taken from the nineteenth-century tracing of the…
I hope some of you have noticed that I’ve been away for a few days (okay: a week or more). We’re all busy, I know.…
Michel Pastoureau observes that “for medieval society, in effect, the animal that was closest to man is not the bear (despite its outward appearance and…
Years ago my focus was meat. I have a lot of material left over from that period that I mean to put together into something…
One of the works I encountered the course of writing my dissertation is the Testamentum Porcelli (the Will of the Little Pig), a short prose…
