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The challenges of a temporal medium
I agree with this critique of video blogging. A major flaw in the vast majority of vlogs is that they take, say, 10 minutes of rambling to say the same thing that would probably take me 2 minutes to read...
Posted in Brian Flemming on April 1, 2007 01:58 PM
What I admire about PETA, and what you don't
I have long been an admirer of PETA's publicity stunts. PETA constantly leverages a small outlay of promotional costs into a bounty of publicity, resulting in exactly what they want: Conversation about animal rights. PETA feels, rightly, that the treatment...
Posted in Brian Flemming on March 28, 2007 01:31 PM
Radicalism at work
The lives (and deaths) of a huge number of animals just got a whole lot better. And who is mainly responsible for this substantial reduction in the real suffering of real animals? Those unhinged, rude, bothersome, polarizing radicals at PETA....
Posted in Brian Flemming on March 28, 2007 02:02 AM
Pet Art 8
See Nora Murphy's art and more....
Posted in Brian Flemming on October 16, 2006 12:48 PM
Oh, how I heart PETA
Your Daddy Kills Animals!...
Posted in Brian Flemming on November 28, 2005 08:36 AM
Kentucky Fried Cruelty
Looks like KFC has refused PETA's simple demand (and the advice of KFC's own appointed experts) to have their suppliers kill their birds without torturing them. After two years of campaigning against KFC, PETA announced on February 28, 2005,...
Posted in Brian Flemming on April 11, 2005 07:13 PM
Is it possible to be more wrong?
Back when I was protesting the Bush Administration's war on Iraq, I got into a lot of arguments with the pro-war side. And I remember noting that many of our arguments were about facts. I'm not a pacifist, so we...
Posted in Brian Flemming on January 29, 2005 05:02 PM
Sexiest vegetarians alive
PETA's Tofutti cuties.
Posted in Brian Flemming on April 5, 2004 06:29 PM
The Astroturfing of Brian Flemming's Weblog?
I have to admit, I'm flattered. "Nate," likely from the Center for Consumer Freedom, an industry front group created by a PR agency, has now been joined by "Jack," a fellow with similar point of view , in the comments...
Posted in Brian Flemming on March 29, 2004 06:05 PM
'Corporate terrorists'
One organization is part of an industry that painfully mutilates chickens soon after they are born, forces chickens to live their entire lives in misery and then scalds the birds in their final, conscious moments of life. Another organization points...
Posted in Brian Flemming on March 25, 2004 10:01 PM
Save the alligator! (But screw all the non-newsworthy animals)
Imagine a Martian is given an assignment by his superiors: Go over to Earth, study the humans there, and determine how they feel about the other animals on their planet. My guess is the first lines of the resulting report...
Posted in Brian Flemming on November 16, 2003 11:19 AM
The Meatrix
PETA rocks. (Flash animation.)...
Posted in Brian Flemming on November 10, 2003 11:55 AM
Holocaust on your plate
Fucking PETA. Why do they make me think about things I don't want to think about? Fuckers....
Posted in Brian Flemming on May 21, 2003 12:57 PM