Kevin Drum is a blogger on politics at Mother Jones. He was born in Long Beach, on October 19, 1958. He is the originator of the trend of 'Friday Cat Blogging.' That means on Fridays he has a note and maybe pictures about his cats. Drum has a cat named Domino, a black (mainly) and white cat whose picture on top of the refrigerator also documents the trend of haphazard magnet decorating of appliances. Inkblot though is a WHITE and black cat. Both are lucky.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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