The New Tobacco Tax: Misguided, Abusive, and an Attack on our Rights– or, Anybody Ready for a New Tea Party?

However you may feel about cigarettes and smoking, the new federal tobacco taxshould appear excessive. The new tax which will be effective April 1st will increase the price of tobacco by the pound. According to CVS employees and The Pipe Den, a local tobacco store here in Vero Beach, Fl, some companies have already raised [...]

Breeding Dogs to Death

     The BBC recently aired a documentary on the health of dog breeds pedigrees, and criticizes professional dog breeding and showing– especially in Britain and over the last 50 years or so (however, much of the documentary easily applies to breeding and showing here in the States) – as breeding to death, with dog shows as the main cause for [...]

Report by Christophpissedoff: SIV, monkey vaginas, and the hope for an HIV preventative.

But in the end, I relish the time in front of a camera where I get to talk about monkey vagina’s. But seriously, this is important stuff. One could point out, though, how horrible it is to purposefully give a primate such a horrible disease. It is in a very real way amoral, and I completely back the ALF (animal liberation front). One the other hand, finding a way to prevent this disease in both our species and theirs would be a great deed, indeed. I’ll let you decide, though.