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…
“Lobsters,” said Arthur. “What?” said Sir Kay. “Lobsters are the only thing most people kill with their own hands,” said Arthur. “In the modern world.”…
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…
Originally uploaded by mivox. Earlier today, I started to write a post on the Middle English Ser Tristrem. In this version, as in several others,…
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…
“The death on the slaughter bench of history, the death which society exacts from individuals is not mere nature — it is also Reason (with…
I’ve been driven to write about carrion for the past few months because of an early thirteenth-century English forest law that goes like this: If…
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.…
