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As long as it's legal, who am I to judge?

Animal Person

I haven't heard the "it's legal" argument in a long time and find the law to be such a completely separate concept that I don't even know where to begin. The law, as I was told by one of my professors during my ten minutes of law school in 1991, isn't about justice (it's about society functioning smoothly).

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

10,000 Birds

Plume hunting raged supreme 150 years ago, when egret feathers were part of a worldwide trade in feathers and other bird parts, used for women’s hats and other articles of clothing (but mostly hats), delighting the upper classes and practically wiping out bird species. Treaties trump state laws. ©2023, Donna L.