There must be eight or ten waitresses here in the facility where I live, who are of Iraqi origin. I suspect most of them came with refugee families, but one of them wears a head scarf and says she practices Islam. I visited with her after dinner the other night, and her story is interesting.…
Airlines Choose To Discriminate Against Trophy Hunters
According to the New York Times, Delta Airlines has chosen to implement a policy discriminating against trophy hunters. “Its announcement came as a group of airlines including Air France, KLM, Iberia, IAG Cargo, Singapore Airlines and Qantas signaled last week they would ban the transport of trophy-hunting kills, according to Paul Ferris, the campaign director at SumOfUs.org,…
Rod St. Aubyn: The New Form Of Public Lynching
While channel surfing on the TV I caught an episode of that old western called Gunsmoke. In this particular episode, some cattlemen caught someone that they thought for sure was part of a group of cattle rustlers and they proceeded to hang him. It turns out that the poor victim ended up being innocent and…
This Forum Communications Report On Cecil The Lion's Hunter Is Ridiculous
I don’t think I need to tell you folks that the coverage of Cecil the Lion being hunted and killed has long since got out of hand. The man who killed the lion, Minneapolis dentist Walter Palmer, has been targeted for social media outrage including people calling for his physical harm and publishing his private…
Matt Evans: Cecil The Lion Was Not More Important Than People
Now that the Confederate Battle Flag has been eradicated, the internet outrage machine has moved onto the case of a hunter from Minnesota who killed a lion in Zimbabwe. There are a few common themes I’m hearing: Trophy hunting and big hunting is stupid/evil/wrong/unmanly/whatever This guy got in trouble in the US for killing a…