If you have a free moment, DR, please ask Sister Patricia to write us a message on some historic Christian approaches to environmentalism and animal-care.

And, more cautiously, please ask John Paasacantando about Greenpeace's role, in theatres in which Sea Shepherd seems to have "seized the moral high road," as they say.

And by the way, it is way too penitential to hold back cocktails till 9:30 PM.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

earth f*cking, corporate bootlicking sellouts

That's an interesting phrase! Would it be appropriate then to call the corporations whose boots are licked "earth f*cking, corporate boots," EFCB?

Here's a question for the Fortune Brainstorm GREEN <;-) with their mix of EFCB corporations and the EFCB-sellout NGO types:

... if the catastrophic changes that are engulfing us could somehow be mitigated, slowed down or stopped [sic]... if a new world could be created [sic], as if by an act of divine intervention [sic] offering a sizable number of communities the luxury of a future, would those communities then allow the same old global EFCB corporations [and their EFCB-sellout NGOs] reiterate the same old algorithms that are about to checkmate humanity?

Wow. We really ARE doomed.

But WGArtist makes an interesting understated point.  I believe Seattle and LA are connected by Amtrak.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.