Sunday, March 23, 2008

violent pandas, prudent Chinese governance, human semi-compassion

BEIJING - China has issued a "Most Wanted" list of 21 rioters shown in grainy photos waving knives and fighting during last week's violence over Chinese rule in Tibet.

That list does sound as though the Chinese government is just trying to maintain law and order, but keep in mind that they’ve also posted lists of "Most Wanted Meditators" and "Most Wanted Journalists".


WASHINGTON (AP) — The 170-pound giant panda cub at the National Zoo grabbed a worker while trying to play, sending her to the hospital with a small leg laceration, zoo officials said Wednesday.

Encouraging, really - after decades of habitat destruction, those wussy pandas are finally cluing in and starting to fight back.


Offers of help are pouring in to animal authorities after more than 100 dogs were found in horrifying conditions at a Middlesex County farm described as a "dog gulag" by police.

The offers are proof, once again, of human compassion for animals, which appears, once again, to exceed human compassion for humans.

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