Comments on: Open thread 6/24/21

By: dh

dh — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:30:30 +0000

This showed what the new generation does know about the basics of life and the value of adding more to humanity and its values.

I wonder how much time she wasted to care about an animal, she devoted herself and her life and her time to take care of one animal.

Is that all she can do this supposedly “smart human”?

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:02:25 +0000

I am all for appreciating all the lifeforms that make up our biosphere, and for treating them with kindness and respect.

However, as most of us move further and further away from the experience of what used to be an overwhelmingly agrarian America–and influenced by the Disneyfication of wildlife–it becomes easier and easier for some people to believe that animals are not unpredictable and often dangerous wild creatures at all (not only harmful from the perspective of potential violence but also from the potential of possible disease transmission), but are, instead, just people in funny suits, and to attribute all sorts of human characteristics to them.

This, of course, leads to situations like that of Boo, to tourists out West walking up to Bison to touch them or * to get “selfies” with them, and to situations like that of “Grizzlyman” Timothy Treadwell. * *

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZJUpX4tz2I

**See https://watchdocumentaries.com/grizzly-man/

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 08:31:35 +0000

Zaphod – my father was the manager of a five-and-dime during my childhood in the fifties. At Easter, the store (among others in a relatively rural Texas town) always sold chicks dyed in pretty colors, just like those in your link, and sometime rabbits. He hated the extra care that they required just to keep them alive until sold, but I suppose they brought some profit or the store owners wouldn’t have kept it up.
Dad was very happy when the animal rights activists shut down the trade (one of the few good things they accomplished; I think they started out okay but quickly went off the rails).

We were not allowed to have them as pets ourselves, except once; the cute chick grew to be an obstreperous rooster, and very soon became Sunday dinner.
My mother said, “Never again.”

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:56:46 +0000

@AesopFan:

Never interfere with Darwin when he’s on the job, Sir.

Now when I were a lad, these were popular:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/colored-chicks-updated-pictures-july-7th.160286/

I’ve seen them for sale as pets in Thailand, otherwise not for many years. Doubtless frowned upon by Peta and similar infestations in the West.

Almost time to head out for a late lunch. Menu choice is a no-brainer today.

@Neo: Feel free to post cute sea slug videos… snakes, civet cats… It’s all on the menu here.

(Inscrutable Oriental Saying WordPress won’t reproduce in the original) <– If its back faces the sky, it's edible.

Except for Bats. Bats are Right Out.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:36:46 +0000

I don’t always agree with the CDC (heh), but they are probably correct here.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/21/dont-kiss-or-snuggle-chickens-cdc-warns-amid-salmonella-cases/

By: JimNorCal

JimNorCal — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:31:57 +0000

A line from Jason Riley’s book about Thomas Sowell:
“Well into the twenty-first century, black leaders still often seemed far more interested in seeking slavery reparations and toppling Confederate statuary than in offering poor black families an escape from failing public schools.”
Ouch! So true …

As you read the book, it may be useful to consider parallels. Black Americans were trying to figure out how to overcome racial animus from the larger society.
We, as conservatives, are puzzling over how to overcome ideological animus from the elites.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:21:07 +0000

That supposed to be news? 🙂

I’ve been hard at work Making Narcissism Great Again ever since Solipsism became a Thing.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:10:46 +0000

In some cases “cynicism” is a byproduct of overwhelming narcissism.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:09:12 +0000

Time for an Irony Interlude:

https://vdare.com/posts/her-name-is-anat-kimchi-white-female-doctoral-student-researching-disparity-in-probation-sentences-randomly-murdered-by-black-male-in-chicago

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:53:43 +0000

@Neo:

Leftists own Purity Spiraling… What’s a Deplorable to do but Cynicism Spiral? 🙂 But yes, point taken… I admit to being somewhat competitive.