Monday, February 25, 2008

Today's Word—Torture

Where are your priorities?

“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian playwright and author (Thanks to alert WORDster Tom Hodges)

2 comments:

  1. I read this as I sit in a legislative committee meeting about to debate what exactly constitutes animal torture and who should be punished and for how long. Utah Senate Bill 297 for the record.

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  2. hmmm. In that context, I suppose it's easy to prefer either journalists or pols for torture.

    Where would last week's Humane Society video of downer cows fall in the Utah legislation? It was enough to make me vegetarian...

    Lawmake well.

    Ted

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