I only watched the first 17 seconds of this video. I was unable to watch more.

I have emailed Mercy for Animals, the publisher of the video, asking for the names of people involved.

UPDATE:One of those featured in the video is Billy Joe Gregg Jr., who has been charged with 12 counts of animal cruelty. Each carries a measly maximum sentence of 90 days in jail. I can’t find a phone number for this scumbag, but if somebody does, please post it so we can be sure to let him know how we feel.

Very powerful.

I am no Obama fan – my readers know that pretty well.  However, he used to (pre-2004ish) occasionally say things that impressed me a lot.

Check out this short clip.  It contains perhaps the best line delivered by a President in my life time – it’s from March of last year, but I hadn’t seen it until now.

It seems that he got a question that didn’t have a pre-fab answer in the corporate war machine script, so he had to kinda adlib.

Is there a more important maxim for a President (or any decision maker) than knowing what he or she is talking about?  It has become fashionable to be immediate and wrong instead of deliberative and right.  Only after adopting the latter habit can a person develop a worldview and moral compass on which to act.  Perhaps we can yet expect these to emerge in the Obama administration.

UConn SSDP had a really cool (and under-reported) pre-conference to SSDP’s Northeast Regional Conference in April.

Several of “the usual suspects,” including myself, spoke. There’s no doubt, though, that Eric Sterling stole the show. I have seen him speak 10+ times, and he is one of the best and most engaging public speakers I have ever been exposed to. Fortunately my camera was rolling: