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The Problem of Evil 2

More news of unfathomable animal abuse from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization (PETA) and this time it’s abuse of turkeys at ConAgra Foods, Inc., one of North America’s largest packaged foods companies.
Between April and July, 2006, PETA undercover investigators worked as “live hangers”—the people who receive live birds and shackle them […]

Where does it come from?

My friend, Angel, sent me a link to a Guardian piece in which Brian Aldiss, author of Brothers of the Head (”the 1977 novel about conjoined twins who are exploited as a pop act [which] has now been made into a film”) looks at “the question of where creative ideas emerge from.”
Aldiss writes:
It’s all wrapped […]