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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Pets are not animals

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

I have long maintained that pets are not animals. The very structure of animal law demonstrates this: animals deemed to be pets are moderately well protected under the law while animals deemed to be food or research subjects or sources of entertainment have next to no legal protections at all. This holds even when the [...]

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The Canadian Collective Unconscious and the London Riots

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

I took an ill-advised journey into the depths of the Canadian collective unconscious this afternoon by reading comments to articles on the London riots. As befits the nature of newspaper comment sections, there weren’t any particularly astute or intelligent comments, be they ostensibly “liberal” or “conservative” or whatever. (I hesitate to point out the irony [...]

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