IF YOU ARE A PERSON WHO TAKES PETA SERIOUSLY, THEN DO NOT READ THIS POST. Such a viewpoint indicates strongly that you and I do not share many base values - or, if we do, then it means that you don't use plain old logic the way that I do, to arrive at conclusions using those base values as postulates.




Okay, things are getting weird quickly.

First off, let's have a moment of silence for Uga VII:

         

Some of you may not have heard - Uga the Seventh, the last in a long line of English Bulldog mascots for the University of Jawja, has passed away due to a myocardial infarction. An interim mascot will be installed to serve out this season, and a new Uga will be chosen for next year.

And, no, that's not the "weirdness" that I was referring to above. Ugas have been around for a long, long time.

No, the really, really strange thing is that PETA has now asked the University of Georgia to not replace Uga VII with an actual, real live English bulldog, but - instead - to consider using a ROBOT DOG MASCOT.

No, I'm not joking.

However, the first time I heard about this, I thought that it was a joke - especially since Orson has been known to be downright irreverent in his observances. But, no, they're not joking. They are serious as a canine heart attack.

This happened about the same time that Ethel was getting slightly flamed on RollBamaRoll . Seems that Floyd had convinced her to try, one more time, to cook alligator meat for the next time we play Florida (which will be the SEC Championship Game on the fifth of December, for those of you playing along at home).  This is in keeping with our custom of eating the mojo of the opposing team - eating pulled pork when playing the Arkansas Razorbacks, eating shrimp etoufee when playing LSU, eating dogs (hot dogs, chili dogs, chili cheese dogs, dogs in a blanket) when playing the Bulldogs, etc (we're playing the Auburn Tigers on Friday, so we'll be eating Frosted Flakes....think about it).

Anyway, Ethel posted on RBR that she wanted to know if anyone had any good recipes for alligator; some folks were helpful, some folks were surprised - and some PETAphiles were aghast that she would eat a poor, defenseless alligator.

They pretty much slammed her for quite some time, and were asking her if she was going to kill and eat Mike, the LSU Tiger, the next time we played them, or why didn't she kill and eat the Auburn eagle?

(They were asking these questions rhetorically - however, I will answer them seriously. If they raised tigers or eagles as game animals, then I would do so in a second. As is, it's a bit too expensive to get good eagle these days).

I would like to really make fun of the PETAfolk, but - well, they've sorta taken the fun out of it. Their own press releases ridicule their positions much better than I could ever do. 

I have to admit, the thought crossed my mind - you don't suppose that that whole movement is being bankrolled by the factory farm companies, do you? I mean, think about it - stupid stuff like this just makes 'em look, well, stupid - ludicrous. If they were actually intended to sway people's opinions, they would do things much more subtly, and not present such a silly-season sort of image. As is, everything that I hear from 'em just makes me want to go eat sausage.