the tant mieux projecthttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/cultural comment, poetry, politics, gore vidal, noam compsy, etcen-US2008-11-23T16:54:47ZSquarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)From “Dominion” to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew Scully by Steve Best, Ph. D.http://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/9/7/from-dominion-to-domination-the-duplicity-and-complicity-of.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-09-07T13:32:45ZIn 2002, arch-conservative Matthew Scully wrote a book called, Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to Mercy, that was universally and uncritically acclaimed by the animal advocacy movement. Because this movement is overwhelmingly single-issue in its focus, and in most cases doesn’t care about a person’s views or politics except how they relate to animals, no one had a problem with the fact that Scully was a senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He wrote some of the key fear-peddling diatribes that got Bush elected and he was recently re-enlisted to help Bush sell the Iraq war “surge” to the American people.

]]>overkill by john vaillanthttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/8/30/overkill-by-john-vaillant.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-08-30T01:27:11ZApril 2003 Atlantic Monthly

“I was always interested in animals,” says Thomas Venezia, recently the subject of an extensive criminal investigation stemming from his hunting practices. “I always wanted to be near them”

by John Vaillant

Overkill

Until January of last year, when a federal judge fined him $4,500, confiscated $15,000 worth of his equipment, and banned him from hunting anywhere in the world for five years,

]]>the actual activist by craig bayerhttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/8/17/the-actual-activist-by-craig-bayer.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-08-17T11:25:19ZCan one be an activist and be himself? To most activists, it’s a probably a silly question. They live and breath activism, it’s their passion in life, they do what they have to do and enjoy doing it. Non-activists probably understand the question better, because they understand how hard and futile it sometimes seems to be an activist.

]]>silber way - by craig bayerhttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/8/15/silber-way-by-craig-bayer-1.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-08-15T01:00:12ZBoston University—with the help of the city of Boston, has named a street after former BU president John R. Silber called “John Silber Way”. Apparently it was done with the public blessing of the city’s mayor Thomas Menino. Some people may be pleased by this  development, some may be amused, some may be disgusted.

]]>silber way - by craig bayerhttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/8/15/silber-way-by-craig-bayer.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-08-15T00:58:12ZBoston University—with the help of the city of Boston, has named a street after former BU president John R. Silber called “John Silber Way”. Apparently it was done with the public blessing of the city’s mayor Thomas Menino. Some people may be pleased by this  development, some may be amused, some may be disgusted.

]]>From the Hand of God to You: Everything You Thought You Knew But Did Not by Sadi Ranson-Polizzottihttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/8/10/from-the-hand-of-god-to-you-everything-you-thought-you-knew.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-08-10T22:46:42ZWhat happens to this buried, unexpressed grief? In many cases it turns to anger, and ultimately to rage. Some of the angriest kids that are encountered in clinical practice are children whose grief was buried long ago in the inner recesses of their psyche. When the losses are compounded and buried so deep that the child can no longer acknowledge the sorrow, the result can be dehumanization of the losses. At this point the child can evolve into what is considered the ultimate menace or threat to society because the child not only loses his or her capacity to feel anything for his or her own losses, but can no longer feel for the pain of others. The child then becomes capable of committing a violent assault or even a homicide without any feeling of remorse whatsoever. - David Crenshaw, Ph.D., ABPP]]>NOT OFTEN QUOTED Number One (a short series of fleshed out sayings) by Chris Madochhttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/8/9/not-often-quoted-number-one-a-short-series-of-fleshed-out-sa.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-08-09T16:17:23ZEditors note: This article was censored by another site, one of the biggest social-networking sites on the internet today. We do not feel that it is worth "outing" this site or the magazine on that site. The most important thing is, instead, to publish the piece as it stands, without censorship (because at Tant Mieux we do not believe in censorship of any kind), so to that end, we publish the piece maintaining its original integrity.

]]>in the wings of a creationist president; a myspace/facebook question of freechoice by Christopher Madochhttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/8/8/in-the-wings-of-a-creationist-president-a-myspacefacebook-qu.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-08-08T01:00:50ZI must be very wicked for I have had no spiritual rest. Light the smudge sticks, strike the singing bowls. The ‘gods’ of deluded American Christians have been unleashed on my internet case. Whoopy doo. You know it’s true that Christ would have been, at the very least, bi-curious and well used to the transcendental effects of snacking on Fly Algaric.]]>day of the bullies by david irvinghttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/6/29/day-of-the-bullies-by-david-irving.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-06-29T20:16:39Zan immodest proposal | sink your teeth into this! by jason millerhttp://tantmieux.squarespace.com/cyrano-tant-mieux-articles-old/2008/6/19/an-immodest-proposal-sink-your-teeth-into-this-by-jason-mill.htmlsadi ranson-polizzotti2008-06-19T11:50:06Z