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Category Archives: animal rights
Emil Guillermo: Your tax dollars at work? One Army doc’s “drug-fueled penis procedures.” CAUTION: DISTURBING VIDEO
If you wonder why animal experimenters must be stopped at every term, here’s a real life story going on in the Army.
HERE’S PETA UNDERCOVER VIDEO SHOT DURING A DMI TRAINING SESSION. IT’S VIDEO SOME NEWS ORGANIZATIONS WOULDN’T SHOW.
Disclosure: My wife headed the department at PETA that began the initial inquiry into Hagmann’s activities.
Emil Guillermo: What if they had a Triple Crown Winner and no one cared?
That about sums up my feeling about American Pharoah’s (sic) win at the Belmont. It wasn’t Affirmed/ Alydar. It wasn’t Secretariat. It was a colt going wire-to-wire against an undistinguished field. Is that really worth celebrating.
That it took nearly 40 years to have another Triple Crown winner isn’t really about the greatness of A.P. It’s more that the game, the breed has degenerated into a drug-mired enterprise that has changed the nature of horse racing in America.
I wrote this last year amid the California Chrome hype around the Belmont, and it all still applies.
http://aaldef.org/blog/not-my-fathers-horse-races.html
If the Triple Crown really mattered it would be on the tip of everyone’s tongue
Astonishing how little if any buzz the victory had.
Here’s what really happened at Belmont yesterday. One horse died, one was vanned off, and American Pharoah won the big race. That’s some crownless triple.
Emil Guillermo: Why are Filipinos always the punchline? Seeing FX’s “The Comedians” reminded me of a dumb joke in “Anchorman 2.”
We know that Manny Pacquiao can punch.
And that the champ is nobody’s punchline.
So why is it that in U.S. pop culture, that’s not true for the rest of us.
Have you noticed? Filipinos are way too often the punchline.
WTF?
It happened again the other night on the FX debut of “The Comedians.” Joshua Gad jokes about joining Billy Crystal in a sitcom. Talking to his agent on the phone, Gad says he wants Latinos to see his work; And blacks; And that other group. You know that group….
The agent then says, “Filipinos? (beat) They’re terrific.”
The tag doesn’t soften the blow.
Listen to the dialogue here: 150409_001
So we’re mentioned. That’s some consolation prize. Inclusion? I didn’t see any Filipinos in the cast.
It reminded me how Anchorman 2 had a Filipino dog eating joke that was really offensive. See my take here.
Replace “Filipino” with “Jew” and you know there’d be cries of anti-Semitism. It would be somewhat mitigated by the fact that the Jews are making the products on screen.
So that’s really the answer isn’t it? We need to see more American Filipinos producing and directing projects.
If that were the case, we can tell our own dog jokes.
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