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Today is International Animal Rights Day, and as we contemplated what we might do on this occasion, we realized that the animal rights movement doesn’t really have a proper mascot. There’s the WWF panda, of course, and PETA’s, um, radical activists, who we love, but what about a nice figurehead? We held some auditions (in [...]

Today is Whale Day, on which occasion we’d love to go see some whales, but there are rarely any in New York’s polluted and traffic-heavy waterways (sometimes, but rarely). So we’ll do the next best thing, go to see some of our favorite fictional whales talk, jump, fight and kill their way through the ocean [...]