"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Monday, December 3, 2012

What Were They Thinking, Part 2

The second part of Michael Berens Sunday piece in the Seattle Times on elephants in captivity arrived today. 

The story doesn't get any prettier I am afraid, but it should give food for thought to thinkers about our assumptions concerning what we perceive as the 'lesser' life forms.

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