tigertoy

Because Matthew Shepard Can't, & I Can - THAT'S why.





There's so much wrong with the world, and so little of me right now to throw at any of it.  The chasm between the America of my childhood, the America I belong in (for all that it probably never existed except in my mind) and the one on the news today is so vast I can't really face it.  I can't say gay marriage is the most important issue out there.  I should be talking about global warming, or health care, or corporatism, or the anti-animal movement.  Or I should be ignoring politics and trying to get a job.  Maybe posting this shouldn't be at the top of my list, but it is the right thing to do, so here it is.

On my way home from work today, WILL's local newscast mentioned the recent story of the guy in Indianapolis who was illegally keeping a collection of poisonous snakes, and then essentially read a press release from the so-called Humane Society of the United States which was a propaganda piece saying that nobody should be allowed to have exotic animals.  I was sufficiently honked off at this (I expect better of WILL than to just quote from a propaganda press release, because they have a good news organization and usually do a much better job of journalism) that I emailed a comment to WILL, which I'm posting here.  Perhaps you will be interested.

Writing this was somewhat challenging; if I wrote a full-length exposition of my position, it would have been longer than they would have read, and if I'd expressed my real opinion of HSUS*, I would have come across as a radical partisan with an axe to grind (which I'll admit that I am, but I want to seem like a voice of reason).

( my email to WILL )

( * about HSUS )