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Too Many Fans?

I found myself wondering how many fans can someone have before becoming unable to have meaningful interaction with them. Started by thinking about musicians, remembering a bit of the interview the members of Nightwish gave before one of their concerts here, where they were saying that, even though it’s not a nice thing to do, […]

Gay Marches and Parades

I’m writing this today because this is when the “diversity march” is taking place in Romania. That’d be how they decided to call the gay march around here, and I’m calling it a march because, save for a few admittedly annoying drag queens, the appearance and behavior of the other participants has always been quite […]

On Banning Circus Animals

This post is quite connected to the last one and could have been called “Circus Animals and Slavery”, but it was, in fact, inspired by Bolivia banning the use of animals for circus acts. But while the similarities are obvious, both being utterly exploited by humans, the difference between farm animals and circus animals is […]

Farm Animals and Slavery

A new series of regulations coming from the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture and dealing with the comfort of farm animals, especially those raised in factory farms, has prompted a series of very amused reactions from the media and a good part of the population, who feel that it’s simply idiotic to think about the comfort […]

Gender Equality on Public Nudity

One of the events that caught my attention earlier this month was the women’s topless march that took place in Portland, Maine. And no, I don’t mean it caught my attention in the sense that it caught the attention of the several hundred mostly male onlookers mentioned in that article, but in the sense that […]