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In March in Alhambra, California, Robert C. Lewis, 52, was jailed for four days without possibility of bail after his unlicensed labrador-shepherd dog chased a cat into the street. And two weeks later in Clearwater, Florida, Michael C. Diana, 24, was also jailed for four days without possibility of bail after being convicted by a jury of publishing obscene comic books using a photocopy machine.
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The Washington Post reported in September that at the third annual Fairfax County Slugfest “Slippery” beat out 49 other slugs in the Tour de Slug race. Also featured at the Virginia festival: slug face painting, a slime toss, and an official drink–green “slimeade.” A 12-year-old boy demonstrated his skill at flicking his tongue in and out of his mouth with his slug Mickey attached. He said that despite washing Mickey several times with soap beforehand, “the slime [still] sticks between your teeth. I’ve still got some slime from yesterday.”
University of Massachusetts Professor Robert Malloy recently announced a plan to save the endangered African black rhinoceros from hunters who kill them for their horns. At a cost of about $2,000 per animal, officials would tranquilize the rhino, remove the horn, and attach an artificial one, using a technique similar to that used to affix dental crowns. The horn would be painted orange to discourage poachers. Namibia has rejected the proposal, preferring its own program to remove but not replace the horns. But Malloy maintains that an artificial horn is necessary for a rhino’s social standing within the herd.
In September three artists, funded in part by a $4,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, selected 70 cows near Boulder, Wyoming, and painted feminist poetry by early settler Phyllis Luman Metal on their hides. Said artist Sue Thornton, “Cows are great, and so are women. Their lives are about self-sacrifice and motherhood.”
