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Mar.05.2013
Solely as s a matter of illustration of how far PETA and other animal-rights/anti-violence movements have come, vis-a-vis 1972 and today, we offer this visual example of "turnabout as fair play."
This is certainly NOT "blatant self-promotion." Never entered my mind. Cross my heart...
-- Earl...
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Dec.21.2012
It’s hardly surprising, I suppose, that at a gathering of writers, poets, and linguists, the talk would turn to etymology. That’s what happened at my department Christmas party this week. We sipped wine, enjoyed various sweet and savory treats, and talked about word histories.
At one point,...
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Oct.29.2012
This is a post about teaching (that impossible work to which I’ve devoted much of my adult life). This is also a post about animal rights (a topic some readers would prefer I leave alone). But mainly this is a post about writing: about the sheer force of the written word, when it is written well.
I...
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Sep.30.2012
This semester, for the first time in my life, I’m teaching a class on animal rights. At my university, all baccalaureate students are required to take a course on social justice. Faculty have developed challenging, creative classes around racism, poverty, health, immigration, and the environment....
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Feb.19.2012
A South Carolina animal-rights group built a remote-controlled surveillance drone to take aerial video of alleged offenses; so far, so good.
However, their choice of venue and event for the drone's maiden flight was somewhat less well thought through, as reported in the local newspaper:...
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Oct.20.2011
When I was a boy living in the central California foothills, my mother took my siblings and me to what was billed as a “wild animal park” not far from our home town, somewhere in the rolling golden hills around the San Joaquin Valley.
I was about seven years old, but I can still remember the...
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Aug.20.2010
Recently, The New York Times reported on the landmark agreement reached in Ohio between farmers and those who care about the humane treatment of animals. Ohioans for Humane Farms, with a huge amount of support by organizations including Farm Sanctuary and the Humane Society of the United States...
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Jul.25.2010
When I was being treated for colorectal cancer, laying in bed, I saw a woman named Kris Carr appear as a guest on Oprah. She was in my age group and had been diagnosed with an "incurable" form of cancer. She had documented her experiences in the film, "Crazy, Sexy, Cancer." I...
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Feb.22.2010
I am totally against putting animals on equal footing with human beings. This muddles the debate, which was something that sprung to mind this week when I read that a Swiss advocate had defended a pike in court. The defendant, an angler, was accused of having spent ten minutes landing the pike and...
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Jul.13.2009
Hey all:
Who knew it was so hard to find an agent? Well, I guess most of us did.
I'm trying to find someone to represent my writing for adults, and am not really getting anywhere... it's tough to get folks' attention!
I've written 2 books for Knopf Books for Young Readers (which both have won...
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