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Saturday, October 18, 2003 ( 8:49 PM ) MB The Toy Drive for Iraqi Children has a new shipping address: Operation Give 7155 Columbia Gateway Drive Columbia, MD 21046 (712 boxes so far!) Permalink ( 7:03 PM ) MB I finished reading Monstrous Regiment today. It was good, but I don't count it among my favorite Pratchett books. The best ones are the ones that make me laugh out loud. (The reason I don't read them in public.) Death makes only a cameo appearance (although I didn't expect him to be in it at all). In other books this might be a good thing, in the Discworld series he's one of my favorite characters. Permalink Friday, October 17, 2003 ( 8:56 AM ) MB Yesterday was a good day. When I went to the bookstore I found a new Terry Pratchett book, Monstrous Regiment. It's cold and raining today...in other words, perfect for staying in bed and reading. I also got the latest issues of Scientific American, Smithsonian, and Discover magazines. Yes, I know it would be cheaper to subscribe but my Brownie troop (and other Girl Scout troops) will be selling magazine subscriptions as a fund raiser next month and I'm waiting to see if those magazines are among the ones offered. Permalink Thursday, October 16, 2003 ( 11:08 PM ) MB How the Web Edits News - an article in Discover Magazine (November 2003) about weblogs, the news, and Technorati. Permalink ( 8:52 AM ) MB Elliott Marc Davis writes about PETA in the Cornell Daily Sun: Decades from now, what will you tell your grandchildren when they ask you whose side you were on during the "wheat holocaust"? Will you be able to say that you stood up against oppression, even when doing so was considered "radical" or "unpopular"? Will you be able to say that you could visualize a world without violence and realized that it began at breakfast? Every day, millions of stalks of wheat are barbarically cut down, some by large machines designed solely to carry out brutal massacres of entire wheat fields. Still other stalks are reaped by the unforgiving edge of a scythe. After being viciously hacked down, a stalk of wheat may often lay on top of its brethren for hours, cruelly squashing them until another large machine -- not unlike a train destined for Auschwitz -- scoops them up in bulk and takes them, in chokingly crowded conditions, to be crushed at the mill. The impassioned plea above should seem silly to most people. But such inanity is very similar to the material presented at "Holocaust on your Plate," an exhibit set up last week by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and sponsored by the Cornell Coalition for Animal Defense. The exhibit -- which juxtaposes graphic scenes from the Holocaust with recent photos from slaughterhouses and farms -- seeks to equate the conditions animals face in the meat industry with the genocide of millions of people under the Nazi regime to promote awareness of animal cruelty and to encourage the adoption of a vegetarian diet. Read the rest. FrontPage Magazine has more on the PETA event Holocaust on Your Plate, including photos of the exhibit. I believe that animals deserve humane and ethical treatment. PETA's outlandish acts and irrational statements only harm the efforts other groups are making to end abuse and mistreatment of animals. Permalink Monday, October 13, 2003 ( 11:49 AM ) MB I've finally found a use for an AOL CD. Well, not the CD itself, the metal box it was in. The box makes a nice holder for my wireless adapter for my laptop when it's not being used. Thanks, AOL. That's going on my mental list of things I never thought I would say. The majority of the list is made up of things I've said to my kids. I never expected to have to inform anyone that boogers are not snack food. Or that one shouldn't lock a little brother in the dog's crate (no matter how tempting it is.) Or feet belong on the floor, not the ceiling. These are some of the more "normal" ones. I've blocked out some of the really bizarre ones in what is probably some subconscious effort to keep myself from realizing how odd my kids can be. Permalink |
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