Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Another Star for Thoreau’s Flag
Add Poland to the list of "51st states."
Archive for June 21st, 2008
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Multiple Choice Test–Media Edition
By Thoreau
Let’s say that you’re the host of a TV “news” show. Somebody on your show starts saying that he thinks it’s OK for the government to hold people forever without trial if the President assures us that the prisoners are dangerous. You have 3 possible responses, listed below. Pick one of them and explain [...]
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
People Beating Tasty Animals
One of the quotations in last night’s gavage entry cited Michael Pollan’s recent book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Browsing around, I found two posts I overlooked previously by Lee at A Thinking Reed about Pollan’s book:
Pollan on the ethics of meat-eating
More on Pollan and vegetarianism: vegetarianism as vocation
Each is worth reading. And I think I need [...]
