the tant mieux project

From “Dominion” to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew Scully by Steve Best, Ph. D.

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:32:45 +0000

In 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 vaillant

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:27:11 +0000

April 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 bayer

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:25:19 +0000

Can 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 bayer

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:00:12 +0000

Boston 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 bayer

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:58:12 +0000

From the Hand of God to You: Everything You Thought You Knew But Did Not by Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:46:42 +0000

What 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 Madoch

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:17:23 +0000

Editors 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 Madoch

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:00:50 +0000

I 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 irving

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:16:39 +0000

Conservatively speaking, approximately 100 million vertebrates in the world are experimented upon annually by the animal research industry of which approximately 22 million animals belong to the United States. Most of the animals are killed after research. While the animal research industry has managed successfully to brain wash the public into thinking animal research consists primarily of medical research, that is not the case. A large portion of animal research takes place in the cosmetics industry, the military, the EPA, the FDA, private research laboratories for industrial use, animal food companies, and others.

an immodest proposal | sink your teeth into this! by jason miller

sadi ranson-polizzotti — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:50:06 +0000

Let’s face it, my fellow freedom and burger loving Americans. It is becoming painfully obvious that our non-negotiable American Way of Life is increasingly under attack. Yet while our meat consumption may be a wedge issue our foes are using against us, it can also be our salvation.