You might recall that when Kate and I had our flight to Pittsburgh canceled (resulting in a reschedule for the next AM, arriving just in time for my panel at Netroots Nation), we said we blew off steam by doing something productive — going to the store and buying needed supplies for the Durham Animal Protection Society . Sorry, I look like *ss in the video (makeup works wonders, doesn’t it); I couldn’t get supplies there earlier because I was so weak from my fibromyalgia flare that I was

Back in July, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that Michael Vick would be allowed to return to professional football, albeit on a “conditional” basis. Vick’s prison sentence for dogfighting had only been completed for about a week when Goodell made his announcement, although Vick had served the last few months of his sentence at his Newport News, Va., home. Now, just a week after Vick’s first exhibition game with his new team , the Philadelphia Eagles — and, we might add, w

For the second time this week, HSUS chief Wayne Pacelle has a must-read blog piece on farmed animals. This time he takes on pork industry subsidies. This article is only kept from being perfect by Pacelle’s failure to describe the pork industry as a bunch of thieving cocksuckers, but he very much makes the point using gentler terms. In the past week we’ve seen Pacelle take on agribusiness antibiotics , we’ve seen Mercy For Animals publicize chick grinding , and now Pacelle’s exposing pork