powernut

I can imagine them over at Dreamworks, their scripts must be like Star Trek except instead of [INSERT TECHNOBABBLE HERE] they put [INSERT POP REFERENCE HERE].

Everything is easy and breezy when you have money. Maybe that's why billionaires are so graspy.

Heh, my favorite is how some super "orthodox" Jews think they can out-lawyer God with clever circumventions of various commandments. I doubt God is impressed. "Yep, you technically kept the law, I guess you win."

Saying that animals have rights implies that rights are granted by your superiors. Rights are asserted, not granted. Forbearance by those in a superior position, simply by their own choice, is not the assertion of the right, it's the granting of a privilege. By calling the humane treatment of animals a "right", you concede your own rights as privileges granted by your generous masters. Well, then, congratulations on having generous masters, slave.

This is like saying the minimum wage was a scheme of the wealthy industrialists to get those union agitators to shut up. Yes, the people in control, always conservative and always rich, are the ones who pull the levers of policy in every place and time, but kicking their shins isn't always a futile effort.