A Loud BOO to evil Jeremy Irons

why hunting is such a big deal? You are too zealous.

Take a few deep breaths, Wish, and try contemplating the fact that people are too complex too be so easily condemned for one opinion. I know people here are prone to melodrama, but geez...

I guess the PC police will cut that scene out of the Mame revival. Maybe Mame can go trout fishing.

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Updated On: 3/17/05 at 12:19 PM

Does that make him the new Tom Selleck?

I am no fan of hunting, but I always marvel at the zeal and foot-stomping outrage of animal rights activists in a world that turns its face, daily, on the death of literally thousands of people in Africa every day from hunger, malnutrition, AIDS, and internecine warfare. (Read the recent NY Times editorial; the daily toll is beyond imagining.) Why do those people who set up booths on streets always seem to be such miscreants? With the attitude that animals are somehow superior? I'm against fur, and even starving cats, but as a society, let's establish some priorities, folks.

If only we cared as deeply about our own species as we do animals. Plenty of people are 'helpless creatures' as well, and we simply turn our heads away.

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Regarding the foxhunting ban, I believe that drag hunting is still permissible (someone goes out beforehand and drags a bag soaked in fox urine along a predetermined hunting path) but using their dogs to rip apart a living fox or follow a living fox (or stag) is not allowed for all of the obvious reasons, cruelty being number one. And foxhounds won't be put down because of the ban though that's a popular threat being used by the advocates of foxhunting (I think in the US and Canada hunts are conducted without killing the fox? Any horse people out there?). Regarding Jeremy Irons, you'd think he'd pity the foxes because all the times he's been ripped apart by the critics.

I, for one, am very glad to see this kind of posting – I think there is plenty of room for caring for fellow man as well as our fellow creatures, and there is little to no excuse for not playing your part to either (especially in our little Broadway society). We as humans are terribly arrogant to think we can barge into the animal worlds and victimize them for our needs, pleasures, etc.

I am not an animal activist, religious whack job, high-and-mighty soap box pounding freak. I just believe in being good to anything that can stare me in the eyes.

TONY – Thanks you for pointing it out – I have a habit of turning my back on celebrities who endorse anything barbaric.

Wonderful post, blueraven.

The fact that I care about the welfare of animals doesn't make me ignorant or less caring towards the needs of people in Africa etc.

QM

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Updated On: 3/17/05 at 01:40 PM

The only evil thing I know Irons did was when he complained that a reading he was giving was going to be sign-language-interpreted for the deaf and hard of hearing and he was distracted by it and complained that he didn't know why deaf people would come to a reading in the first place.

That and the fact that I think he poisoned his wife Sunny von Bulow.

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awesome post ckeaton

WISHIHADATONY,

I hate to break this to you as well but I hear that Jeremy Irons also is a fan of Sweet Charity...another reason for you to dislike him. I hear he even preferred the Debbie Allen version!!!

feng shui, get a clue.

I'm a HUGE animal rights person...the biggest I know, and this infiruates me. It doesn't make me hate Irons, it just makes me sad that people are so ignorant. It blows my mind.

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