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No accident

No accident

The Artdog Quote(s) of the Week I recently realized that I’ve talked about habitat loss several times this year on this blog, but always in the context of plants and animals in the environment, never about humans losing their homes, except in the context of natural disasters. But there’s an ongoing, not-too-dramatic-looking but heartbreaking and needless disaster unfolding in our country. Not the addiction epidemic, although it’s related. It’s a crisis of homelessness. I’ll focus mainly on the US for my thoughts about homelessness in my December Quotes of the Week, because that’s…

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Banned! Too political, they said.

Banned! Too political, they said.

The Artdog Image of Interest Normally when we think of a banned book or other communication, we assume it’s considered pornographic or inflammatory. And of course we immediately become curious, if we’re most people. But . . . they banned a supermarket chain’s Christmas ad, designed for children, as “too political” to broadcast in the UK. Say what? This week’s Image of Interest is a video whose story kind of begs for me to pass it on. Yes, it’s designed for kids, and yes, it does make a strong point. Whether…

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