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Harambe Was Not Your Boyfriend

Harambe Was Not Your Boyfriend
I’ve seen this photo plastered all over social media intimating the slaying of the noble giant Harambe. It reminds me of that super creepy Burt Reynolds pic where he’s laying naked on the bear rug. Who’s this gorilla playing third base for, I’m confused. Harambe didn’t pose for this photo, he was thinking about raping whoever took ...

Cecil The Lion Deemed More Important Than Brown People

Cecil The Lion Deemed More Important Than Brown People
I found it troubling that I noticed roughly ten times as many posts on my social media accounts about a dead lion than about a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan which took out a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (internationally known as Médecins Sans Frontières), which is a humanitarian organization devoted to providing medical aid to ...

Are Trophy Hunters Really Into Conservation?

Are Trophy Hunters Really Into Conservation?
After bloodthirsty Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer killed real life Disney character Cecil the Lion, more conversations began to pop up about why Cecil had been chosen as his latest, most high profile victim. In most every country in Africa, including Zimbabwe where Cecil was offed, there are laws regarding sport hunting not much different than here in ...