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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The law speaks specifically and narrowly to the distribution for profit of videos that show illegal acts of cruelty actually being performed on live animals (my italics). Only a very narrow range of activities come under the sweep of this law, and all of them are illegal.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. The Prologue presents the two contrasting obsessions, a narrative that intrigues with promises of more details to come.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

” You can read just that chapter and the final chapter summarizing this achievement and learn a lot, but it really isn’t the whole story, not the one Greeley wants to present. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book.