No Matter How Old We

We May Prefer To Think Of Ourselves As Fallen Angels, But In Reality We Are Rising Apes.

As Long As The Human Race Is Able To Concern Itself With More Than Mere Survival, Soccer Will Have Its Place.

We Are To Put It Mildly, In A Mess, And There Is A Strong Chance That We Shall Have Exterminated Ourselves By The End Of The Century. Our Only Consolation Will Be That As A Species, We Have Had An Exciting Term Of Office.

The Idea That It Is Funny To See Wild Animals Coerced Into Acting Like Clumsy Humans, Or Thrilling To See Powerful Beasts Reduced To Cringing Cowards By A Whip-cracking Trainer, Is Primitive And Medieval. It Stems From The Old Idea That We Are Superior To Other Species And Have The Right To Hold Dominion Over Them.

Aquatic Animals Suffer From The Disadvantage That They Cannot Scream When In Pain, So We Find It Hard To Gauge The Degree Of Their Agony. If Fish Could Scream, Angling Purely For Sport Would Be Outlawed Without Delay.