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We Need More Deer Hunting

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 22, 2023

Forget the Bambi thing--there are too many deer. Effectively, in 2023, all animals in the United States are managed. If you create a scenario where you strip away the apex predators--wolves in this case--then you are going to see enormous spikes in grazing animals well...

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The Worst People in the World

By Erik Loomis

On March 8, 2021

I just don't get the people who start salivating at the idea of massacring wolves or any other wild animals really. Hunters in Wisconsin killed more than 200 wolves last.

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The Republican Party Must Be Crushed Into Dust, Part the Zillion

By Erik Loomis

On June 16, 2020

In the big scheme of everything that is going wrong, Trump rescinding the order to not shoot wolf puppies and bear cubs in their dens in Alaska may not be.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 181

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 26, 2017

This is the grave of George Bird Grinnell. Born in 1849 to an old money New York elite family, Grinnell graduated from Yale in 1870. He was part of a first generation of easterners fascinated by a disappearing American West and he would make his...

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Elephants

By Erik Loomis

On November 16, 2017

Nice to see Trump create policy based on his boys' love of killing large animals. The Trump administration plans to allow hunters to import trophies of elephants they killed in.

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Regulating Lion Imports and Regulating Sweatshop-Produced Imports

By Erik Loomis

On December 23, 2015

The U.S. is now cracking down to some extent on the importation of lion trophies after the killing of Cecil earlier this year. It's not going as far as some.

Objects to a Tax

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 3, 2014

I was rummaging around the other day in my office and came across this old letter to the editor of the journal Western Field and Stream (one of the precursors to the modern Field and Stream) from October 1897: Objects to a Tax Editor Western...

Old God New Tricks But he did write a bunch of columns explaining how the only sensible thing to do is hand over Ukraine to Putin.
Donald the Dove: Netanyahu has not been brutal enough in Gaza · December 3, 2024
Old God New Tricks EU policy is to let big daddy USA deal with it and shake our heads at the dumb violent Americans who keep bombing people, unlike us, who are pure. Then hope not too many refugees come over.
Donald the Dove: Netanyahu has not been brutal enough in Gaza · December 3, 2024
Roberto Estep You're being kinda coy. Can you give us a hint who you think they are?
Donald the Dove: Netanyahu has not been brutal enough in Gaza · December 3, 2024
Roberto Estep You genuinely think that American domestic politics is so dramatically different from that of the EU countries? "Trivially easy" cries out for the sarcasm font. And why on earth would...
Donald the Dove: Netanyahu has not been brutal enough in Gaza · December 3, 2024
Cereal So, serious question, how does one “hold the Senate accountable?” The quoted piece says we “should expect our elected officials to protect norms and institutions” and “should call on...
Fight to Hold Institutions Accountable · December 3, 2024