May 15, 1936 is the birthday of Ralph Steadman, the artist and author who was a close friend of Hunter S. Thompson, and in fact, is said by some to have with Thompson, invented gonzo journalism. Steadman, a cat lover who wrote, "The Grapes of Ralph," about a cat, also published "The Book of Jones: A Tribute to the Mercurial, Manic, and Utterly Seductive Cat" in 1997 about another pet of his.
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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