http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:36:36 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/17/004546.php#comment-336444 I'll be out of town next week as I learn about diversity by working in Baltimore schools so you're going to have to go a week without my summaries. I'll tape them, though, and may write up reviews later if I get some time. Any feedback on these reviews and summaries is welcome - I'm still choosing my voice and style as you may have noticed. My goal is to make them funnier next time, instead of just trying to describe why the show is funny. 336444@blogcritics.org Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:36:36 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/17/004546.php#comment-336290 Wel said, you two. I agree - hunting is one thing but this canned hunting seems like a whole different, um, creature. 336290@blogcritics.org Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:58:00 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/17/004546.php#comment-336083 I'm not a hunter but I don't object to hunting - real hunting. Real hunting involves getting up at the crack of dawn sitting in a duck blind or walking through a field and shooting your duck or your goose as it comes over, or your pheasant breaks cover. It involves the animal having a chance to escape or survive. It involves caring for the environment because if you don't the animals disappear. Some of the most vocal conservationists (in terms of not wanting wild habitats destroyed) I know are hunters. What Cheney and other "canned" hunt participants are doing isn't hunting, it's the slaughter of animals as surely as if you chained a deer to a fence and let a paying customer shoot it from 15 feet away. 336083@blogcritics.org Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:55:27 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/17/004546.php#comment-336040 Dick Cheney is NOT a hunter, he is a killer. I started hunting when I was 14. Those of us who were real hunters knew well the killers we saw in the field and we avoided their vicinity because they were so careless and often drunk: we were concerned about being shot. Often, they had out-of-state license plates, new equipment, fancy weapons and made an unseemly amount of noise. One time my buddy and I watched in hilarity as a group of them crept along the ground stealthily toward a flock of coots sitting on a lake and popped away stupidly at the inedible birds. 336040@blogcritics.org Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:10:57 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/17/004546.php#comment-335961 I'm curious what others - especially hunters - thought of this episode. 335961@blogcritics.org Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:05:05 EST