We have passed the spooky season of silly ‘No Kings’ protests and whines about White House renovations. Halloween is the start of one of our favorite times of year \u2013 eating. The three biggest food holidays land within two months \u2013 Halloween (Candyland for those of us with sweet teeth), Thanksgiving and Christmas. And the best two are still on their way \u2013 sort of like dessert before the main course. So, who better to lead that off than our friends at Peta.<\/p>\n
Peta, which wouldn\u2019t exist if people didn\u2019t eat animals or wear animals or have pets or look at animals in zoos, etc., is one of the strangest organizations around. It is so pro-animal and anti-human that it\u2019s always good for a laugh or a gross out. (We dropped one previous item that was, well, funereal. Trust me, you are better off.) This month, it\u2019s sort of similar, except it\u2019s about a memorial \u2026 for some of those previously mentioned tasty animals.<\/p>\n
According to Peta, ‘Wesleyan University, students, faculty, and alumni are coming together to build a more compassionate campus.’ No, they\u2019re not doing charity work or going to animal shelters adopting cute puppies. That would make sense. They\u2019re pushing for a plaque. They are ‘calling on the school to install a PETA-supported \u2018Wesleyan Animal Recognition Memorial.\u2019’ What\u2019s that, you ask? It\u2019s a memorial plaque ‘outside the dining hall that would commemorate the millions of chickens, cows, fish, pigs, and others who have been killed and served there as food.’<\/p>\n
Yum. Imagine getting ready to eat your industrial, cafeteria burger or chicken fingers and pass by a memorial devoted to the dead critters you are about to eat. For what we are about to receive, thank Peta.<\/p>\n
The far-left news outlet The Nation sure does take ‘F— the police’ pretty far. The publication’s Sports Editor Dave Zirin wrote a loving piece about infamous cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal under the headline, ‘Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man.’ <\/p>\n
News flash, he isn\u2019t free and isn\u2019t much of a man either. ‘Mumia,’ as his supporters call him, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He managed to escape the death penalty, but go to almost any leftist protest in the last 40 years and a couple idiots will be carrying ‘Free Mumia’ signs.<\/p>\n
The timing of Zirin\u2019s latest interview (he wrote about Mumia for Rolling Stone earlier this year) came right after ‘an event commemorating the recently departed revolutionary Assata Shakur, the former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who escaped a New Jersey prison to Cuba 46 years ago.’ <\/p>\n
In other words, another cop killer. According to the New York Times\u2019 loving farewell to Shakur, she murdered ‘state trooper, Werner Foerster, [who] was killed and another, James Harper, [who] was wounded.’ <\/p>\n
Notice a trend? You should. Shakur died in September, or I\u2019d dwell more on the media\u2019s love fest for her. Watching Zirin lament the poor health of ‘the country\u2019s best-known political prisoner’ was bad enough. For the record, I lament his health, too, just not in the same way.<\/p>\n
If you travel the back roads of the United States, you will encounter oddities \u2013 large monuments to furniture, trolls, a giant elephant and even Carhenge. (Just what you think it is. Stonehenge is better.) Count wacky museums in that list. But we are losing one, Leila\u2019s Hair Museum in Missouri. Alas, Leila Cohoon died at 92 and now they are, ‘rehoming the collection of more than 3,000 pieces to museums across the country,’ according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
AP describes the hair art coming from, ‘from past presidents, Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe and even Jesus.’ (That last one, I kind of doubt.) <\/p>\n
Hair art used to be how people remembered loved ones or captured keepsakes of famous people. The museum also drew the attention of celebrities from comedian Phyllis Diller to Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne. It\u2019s good to see other museums taking on these unusual memories, but that\u2019s one less cool roadside stop.<\/p>\n
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made the news in October and not in a good way. She should be used to that after an inauspicious term in her role covering for President Joe Biden\u2019s obvious dementia. ‘KJP,’ as she is sometimes called, has a new book out, ‘Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America.’ In World Series terms, she whiffed on all three. Don\u2019t wait to buy your copy.<\/p>\n