I am writing in response to your April 11 editorial “Hypocrisy of PETA Gets Our Goat.” We’re grateful for the opportunity that this editorial—despite its deceptive intent—gives us to discuss the animal-overpopulation crisis. We’re on the front lines in the battle to help unwanted dogs and cats, and we need your readers’ help.
I fully agree with Coach Kim Mulkey’s assessment of the Louisville “assault” game on March 31. I said they literally “clawed” their way to the championship game, where they got what they deserved: a 33-point loss.
Hypocrisy is something that rubs people the wrong way.
Currently standing atop the hypocritical power rankings is the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA.
A common problem I’m seeing on campus is overworked, overstressed, sleep-deprived students who are too busy with schoolwork to fully enjoy their college experience. I have had multiple friends say “I live for the weekends,” but this isn’t how it should be.
I’m writing in response to an April 3 article titled “Central Texas plagued by rabies.” As a citizen of Waco and a person that works with the feral cat community in our area, I would like to offer a few words in response to the article about recent rabies cases in McLennan County.
This morning while I was getting Starbucks, the cashier annoyed me to no end.
Why, you may ask?
She was just too excited. She had the biggest grin on her face, like giving me my Passion Tea drink was just the best part of her day. I do believe it could have been me not having enough caffeine in my body at the time to deal with someone’s exuberance, but it was also the fact that since I wasn’t in a good mood, anyone else being in that good of a mood was just annoying.
Texas has made a good start in terms of the statutes of limitations as it relates to sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault and continuous sexual abuse of a young child. In Texas, these crimes are treated the same as murder.
Texas has a total of eight crimes that have no statutes of limitations: murder and manslaughter, sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault of a child, sexual assault if DNA is collected, continuous sexual abuse of a young child, indecency with a child, leaving the scene of an accident that results in the death of a person, trafficking of persons, and continuous trafficking of persons.
Last week, the Associated Press deserved the criticism it received when it adapted the official AP Stylebook to exclude the phrase “illegal immigrant.” Arguing the world “illegal” can only describe an action, the AP instead mandated writers use “living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission.”
The change affects hundreds of newspapers across the country, as AP Style is the industry standard for journalism.
