Earlier this week, Reuters reported that a group of 14 English schoolchildren had voted (13-1) to have Marcus, a six month-old pet lamb that the class had raised from birth and hand-fed, put to death. Although 250 children at the primary school in Kent take part in the program, designed to teach them about raising [...]
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Comments Are Overrated
As I (and several others) have pointed out recently, there’s been a slow death of discourse in blogs. Most commenters either agree with the author openly, disagree vehemently, or use the opportunity as a chance to pose their own pet theories (as a ploy to drive traffic to their own blogs). What’s often missing is [...]
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