Vegetarianism

Here is an extremely interesting article about the history of the arguments underpinning vegetarianism:

Vegetarianism has always been less about why you should eat plants than about why you shouldn’t eat animals. And so arguments about vegetarianism, by drawing attention to rights that we claim for ourselves but deny to other animals, inevitably involve basic questions about what it is to be human.

Birthdays

Belated birthday wishes to heidi8 and ari_o. Happy birthday today to pameladean and wintercreek.

The "Burquini"

Saw this at broadsheet and noted without comment: The Burquini, which allows a modest Muslim woman to swim comfortably while remaining fully covered from head to toe.

(All right, one little comment: broadsheet is right: that hood does sorta look like a Smurf hat).

I've created a monster

Now Delia is doing the Code Monkey Dance.