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"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.

 

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Animal Issues
By Mary T. Hoffman

4-H Boy - 6 Apr 2006
Abolitionist Approach – 22 June 2008
Abuse at University of California, Davis – 28 March 2009
Abuse of Dogs – 18 August 2007
A Crime – 23 November 2007
Action Alerts – 14 November 2008
Addiction to Evil – 12 June 2007
Abuse of Children and Animals - 17 Feb 2006
A Great Light - 18 Feb 2006
A Holiday for ALL Mothers – 11 May 2008
Albert Schweitzer – 24 July 2206
A Little Bit of Heaven? – 3 March 2008
A Little Child Shall Lead Them – 18 November 2006
Altruism - 5 Feb 2006
A New Beginning - 13 Apr 2006
Angels – 27 March 2007
Angels (continued) – 28 March 2007
Animal Abuse and Human Violence – 14 September 2007
Animal Abuse and Human Violence (continued) – 15 September 2007
Animal Abuse Increasing – 5 April 2008
Animal Ingredients A to Z - 18 Mar 2006
Animal Research – 26 September 2008
Animal Rights: What America Needs Most – 31 May 2006
Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care - 15 Mar 2006
Animal Sacrifice – 21 November 2007
Animal Sacrifice – 29 February 2008
“Animals and the Law: The Shocking Truth” – 9 May 2007
Animals Are Smarter Than You Think – 14 March 2008
Animals in Heaven – 15 February 2009
An Open Letter to Christian Churches – 15 May 2006
An Open Letter to Christian Churches, continued – 16 May 2006
An Open Letter to Christian Churches, conclusion – 17 May 2006
An Open Letter to Hunters – 5 November 2006
Another Letter to the USDA – 3 April 2008
Another Population Explosion – 6 October 2007
Anything to Justify Error – 16 July 2007
Are We Killing Ourselves? – 6 May 2009
Are Your Donations Cruelty-Free? – 29 October 2008
Arrogance - 22 Feb 2006
Arrogance – 1 July 2007
Ask the FDA to Stop Animal Testing – 17 April 2008
A True Act of Compassion – 22 December 2008
A True Rebirth - 4 Apr 2006
AUTUMN GREY by Jenny Moxham – 24 September 2007
Bacterial Cross-Contamination – 9 December 2006
Bad Taste – 2 August 2007
Beauty and Truth? – 26 Apr 2006
Beef Recall – 18 February 2008
Beef Recall (continued) – 19 February 2008
Belonging – 3 September 2006
Be Patriotic: Go Vegan – 6 July 2008
Best Friends – 29 July 2007
Betrayal – 28 August 2006
Betrayal – 17 September 2007
Betrayal of Founders’ Ideals – 2 September 2006
Betrayal Spreads – 18 July 2008
Betrayal Spreads (continued) – 19 July 2008
Birds, Mice, and Rats – 27 June 2008
Blame the Pigs For E. coli? – 28 October 2006
Blasphemies – 23 December 2008
Blaspheming the Holy Spirit – 30 September 2006
“Blessed Are Those…” – 9 January 2008
Blood Money – 5 August 2007
Bonobos – 15 February 2007
Bonobos and Forgiveness – 29 June 2006
Born Again (continued) – 8 March 2007
Brainwashing? – 4 May 2007
Branding – 21 December 2006
Buffalo – 2 May 2007
“But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.” – 30 Apr 2006
Byproducts of the Flesh Trade – 12 August 2008
Cage-Free Eggs – 12 May 2008
Call, Fax, or Email Your Rep in Washington Now! – 13 November 2006
Calling Evil Good and Good Evil – 20 September 2006
Cannibalism – 26 January 2007
Cannibalism – 26 December 2007
Cartoons by Denise E. Stephens – 23 July 2007
Cartoons by Denise E. Stephens – 28 March 2008
Cattle Grazing on Federal Lands – 17 November 2008
Celebrities – 27 August 2006
Celebrities - 16 April 2007
Charitable Cruelty to Animals – 20 August 2007
Chicken – 2 October 2007
Chicken – 4 April 2008
Chicken Recall – 5 May 2008
Chickens – 25 August 2008
Chicken Torture – 1 June 2007
Chimpanzees – 6 November 2006
Christian Concern For All God’s Creatures – 5 June 2006
Church Dinners – 5 March 2007
Clean Water – 18 June 2007
Cloning – 19 January 2008
Comedy? – 17 July 2006
Compassionate Living – 21 January 2007
Compassion for Sale? – 3 November 2006
Compassion Is the Key – 12 March 2009
Compromise and Corruption – 17 January 2008
Confessions of a Fish Killer – 29 August 2007
Consequences of Denial, Part II – 31 July 2006
Contributing to Evil – 2 August 2008
Contributing to Exploiters? – 14 September 2006
Coral Reefs – 22 January 2008
Courage to Speak the Truth – 12 May 2006
Cowardly Submissive – 22 January 2007
Cows – 8 October 2008
Coyotes – 5 September 2008
Crabs Are Animals, Too – 22 September 2006
Cries and Lies - 18 Apr 2006
“Cruelty-Free”? – 19 January 2007
“Cruelty-Free”? (continued) – 20 January 2007
Cruelty to Primates at University of Wisconsin – 24 March 2009
Culture and Tradition - 8 Feb 2006
Cults – 13 June 2006
Custodians of the Planet – 25 February 2009
Dairy – 19 November 2008
Dairy Problems – 25 July 2007
David Cantor – 23 May 2006
Day Before Christmas – 24 December 2006
Decadence – 28 May 2006
Deception in the Churches – 5 August 2006
Deception in the Churches (Continued) – 6 August 2006
Deer - 3 Apr 2006
Defenders of the Faith? – 3 May 2007
Deliberate Blindness – 24 February 2008
Depart From Evil – 8 August 2007
Dirty Secrets – 1 April 2009
Disease Origins – 3 October 2008
Do Dogs Have Souls? – 26 October 2008
Dog and Cat Fur – 10 August 2007
Dogs – 31 May 2008
Dolphin Collision – 30 April 2008
Dominion – 24 February 2009
Donating Wisely – 24 April 2008
Don’t Apologize – 5 July 2008
Doublespeak – 4 October 2007
Do You Eat Feces and Don’t Know It? – 19 September 2007
Do You Eat Fish? – 8 September 2006
Do Your Homework Before Donating – 22 July 2007
Do You Support Animal Cruelty and Don’t Know It? – 6 July 2007
Do You Use Chicken Broth? – 18 March 2009
Drug-Resistant Superbugs – 5 January 2008
Earth Day – 22 April 2008
Easter Ham? – 9 April 2009
Egg-Laying Hens – 16 April 2009
Eggs – 5 November 2007
Eggs (Revisited) – 12 December 2007
Eliminate Chicken Slaughter School Projects – 9 October 2008
Emotional Attachment (Part 3) – 27 May 2007
Endangered Red Pandas – 2 July 2007
Ending the Use of Live Animals in Military Trauma Training – 30 April 2009
Enough Is Enough! – 11 June 2007
Erectile Dysfunction – 5 October 2007
Ethical Dilemma – 5 December 2006
Eugene Field – 8 February 2009
Even Floods Don’t Deter the Fish Killers – 26 August 2007
Everything in Moderation? – 14 December 2006
Evil - 26 Jan 2006
Evil Unopposed – 12 November 2007
Evolution – 18 February 2007
Expose the Truth – 21 September 2006
Expose the Truth – 7 January 2007
FACES – 2 July 2006
Facing the Truth - 3 Feb 2006
FACTS of the DAY – 29 June 2008
Familial Bonds – 11 January 2008
“Familiarity Breeds Contempt” – 1 December 2007
Fanatic – 8 December 2006
Father of Lies – 6 October 2008
Fear Makes the World Go 'Round – 25 February 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 26 February 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 1 March 2007
Fear Makes the World Go ’Round (continued) – 2 March 2007
Feeding Animals and Poop to Animals – 23 May 2008
Fish Do Feel Pain – 10 December 2008
Fish Farms – 29 June 2007
Fish Feel Pain – 22 August 2007
Fish Intelligence – 6 August 2007
Fish in the News – 4 November 2006
Fish Promotes Breast Cancer – 22 October 2007
Fish Promotes Breast Cancer and Heart Disease – 28 December 2007
Fitness – 8 October 2006
Flag Day – 14 June 2006
Flexitarian? 25 Jan 2006
Foie Gras – 27 May 2006
Foie Gras – 9 August 2008
Foie Gras Only Produced With Cruelty – 10 September 2006
Forgiveness – 12 December 2007
Free-range? – 9 April 2008
Free Will - 1 Mar 2006
Fur – 13 March 2008
Fur and Deception - 15 Feb 2006
Fur and Faux Fur -13 Feb 2006
Fur and Faux Fur – 27 January 2007
Garbage – 8 March 2009
Getting to the Root of the Problem – 6 June 2006
Giving Thanks and Being Blessed – 22 November 2007
Glorifying Animal Suffering - 30 Mar 2006
Glorifying Cruelty – 24 January 2008
Glorifying Evil in a Fallen World – 15 August 2007
God Listens to Your Care - 13 Jan 2006
God Listens to Your Love - 24 Jan 2006
God Listens When You’re Sad - 18 Jan 2006
God Is Seen In Creation - 25 Mar 2006
God’s Blessings – 10 February 2008
God’s Creatures Ministry – 10 November 2006
God’s Creatures Ministry – 31 August 2007
Going Green – 3 July 2008
Good Friday – 21 March 2008
Good Quotations – 12 March 2008
Gorilla Behavior - 12 Jan 2006
Great American Meatout – 16 March 2009
Great Friday – 6 April 2007
Great Thursday – 5 April 2007
Groundhog Day – 2 February 2009
Guilt-Free? – 17 July 2007
Happy? – 8 January 2007
Happy Cows? – 13 October 2008
Happy Father’s Day – 18 June 2006
“Happy” Meat? – 16 July 2008
Happy Mother’s Day – 14 May 2006
Happy Mother’s Day? – 13 May 2007
Happy New Year – 1 January 2007
Happy? Revisited – 19 November 2007
Hardening Hearts Through Slaughter - 7 Apr 2006
Hardness of Heart – 24 September 2006
Hardness of Heart – 4 June 2007
Health and Disease - 25 Feb 2006
Hell on Earth – 6 April 2009
Hiding the Truth – 29 March 2007
Hiding the Truth – 25 April 2007
High Tech Fish Killing – 16 June 2007
Holiday Nightmares - 5 Apr 2006
Holiday Observances - 9 Feb 2006
Holidays – 12 May 2007
Holy Saturday – 7 April 2007
Hope – 22 February 2009
H.O.P.E. with Anthony Marr – 6 September 2006
Horse Racing – 27 July 2006
Horses and Ponies – 4 February 2008
“House of Horror” – 7 December 2007
How Long, Oh Lord? - 12 Mar 2006
Human Benefits from Animal Rights – 1 Jun 2006
Human Benefits from Animal Rights (continued) – 2 June 2006
Human Benefits from Animal Rights (continued) – 3 June 2006
Human Benefits from Animal Rights (conclusion) – 4 June 2006
Humane? - 2 May 2006
Humane Farming of Animals? – 8 July 2006
Humane Farming of Animals? (Continued) – 9 July 2006
“Humane” Farming Revisited – 10 December 2006
Humane Religion – 28 February 2008
Human Future – 22 July 2006
Human Values – 27 December 2007
Humphrey Primatt – 14 January 2009
Hunters: Cowardly Ambushers – 1 November 2008
Hypocrisy – 10 October 2007
Hypocrisy – 12 November 2008
Indifference and Callousness – 12 January 2009
Intelligence – 15 July 2008
Intelligence, Knowledge, and Wisdom – 2 October 2006
Intelligent Observations – 6 January 2009
International Respect for Chickens Day – 4 May 2008
International Respect for Chickens Day – 4 May 2009
International Respect for Chickens Month – 1 May 2008
International Respect for Chickens Month – 1 May 2009
Intolerance in the Churches – 24 April 2007
Investment – 21 February 2008
Irony – 10 August 2006
Is Milk Necessary for Building Strong Bones? – 5 December 2008
It Is Better to Err on the Side of Compassion – 28 July 2006
Junk Food Worldwide – 21 June 2008
Kangaroos – 24 June 2007
Kangaroo Slaughter – 13 November 2007
Kill and Murder - 12 Feb 2006
Killers – 10 January 2009
Killing Fish – 24 Apr 2006
Kitchen Counters – 7 March 2008
Koala – 27 February 2009
Labels – 25 September 2006
Lab Monkey Business – 14 May 2008
Labor Day – 1 September 2008
Letter about Michael Vick and Hypocrites – 5 September 2007
Letter about New Iberia Research Center – 27 March 2009
Letters and Responses – 4 September 2007
Letters to Senators – 2 March 2009
Letter to AARP – 16 May 2008
Letter to Massachusetts General Hospital – 10 March 2009
Letter to NIH – 1 April 2008
Letter to Public Citizen News – 22 May 2008
Letter to the FDA – 13 December 2007
Letter to The Johns Hopkins University – 21 March 2009
Letter to USDA – 2 April 2008
Letter to USDA – 23 March 2009
Letter to USDA about Dog and Rabbit Abuse at Loyola Labs – 24 September 2008
Letter to USDA about Rhesus Monkeys – 21 September 2008
Letter to USDA about Texas Heart Institute Abuse – 25 September 2008
Letter to WMHT Public TV – 7 May 2008
Lies and Distortions – 16 December 2006
Life’s Purpose – 8 February 2008
Like an Animal? – 1 December 2008
Living Soul – 29 October 2006
Looking the Other Way – 17 May 2007
“Love all God’s creation….” – 7 June 2006
Love Pill? – 9 March 2009
Lukewarm – 2 March 2008
“Magic Bullets” – 27 December 2006
Making Christians into Children of Hell – 11 May 2006
Mandatory Alternatives Petition (MAP) – 2 February 2008
Manipulation – 16 August 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – 19 January 2009
Mastitis – 11 April 2008
Meany Greenie – 11 March 2008
Meat-Out 2008 – 9 March 2008
Medical Advancement - 21 Mar 2006
Mercury Contamination – 7 September 2006
Mice Sing to Mates - 11 Jan 2006
Michael Greger, M.D. – 12 March 2007
Michael Klaper, M.D. – 13 March 2009
Michael Vick Dog Fighting Scandal – 19 July 2007
Mixed Messages – 4 December 2007
Momma Chimp and Tiger Cubs – 8 November 2008
Moral Courage – 24 March 2007
More Denial – 30 October 2006
More Government Corruption – 13 January 2009
More Lab Monkey Business – 15 May 2008
More Mixed Messages – 16 December 2007
More on Culture and Tradition - 17 Mar 2006
More Words of Wisdom – 13 April 2008
Motivated By Compassion – 20 October 2007
Moving a Mountain – 18 November 2007
My Prayer – 8 June 2006
New York City Carriage Horses - 3 Mar 2006
No Noodles – 30 March 2007
NOT EVERYONE LOVES CHRISTMAS – 24 December 2007
Often the Oppressed Become Oppressors – 29 Apr 2006
Orcas in Captivity – 9 August 2007
Organic Leather? – 18 October 2008
Organizations That Are Actually Pro-Hunting – 8 July 2007
Oscar the Cat on CNN – 28 July 2007
Our 45th Wedding Anniversary – 7 July 2007
Our Feathered Friends – 29 December 2008
Out of Sight, Out of Mind – 10 February 2007
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (continued) – 11 February 2007
Palm Sunday – 16 March 2008
Pastor Oxymoron - 31 Jan 2006
Penguins – 26 November 2006
Pet Loss From a Christian Perspective – 20 June 2007
Pigs – 28 November 2007
Pigs – 22 October 2008
Pity – 5 March 2009
Popular Proverbs Applied – 15 March 2007
Pork Production – 31 August 2008
Power Corrupts (Continued) – 26 October 2006
Practice Makes Perfect – 1 August 2006
Prairie Dogs – 14 August 2007
Preventing Disease – 14 March 2007
Primates – 3 July2007
Priorities and Character - 30 Jan 2006
Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs – 17 April 2009
Progress – 1 October 2006
Pro-Life? – 22 August 2006
Pro-life or Pro-death? – 13 February 2008
Promote Kindness, Not Abuse – 17 February 2009
Psychopathology – 25 June 2007
Puppy Mills – 22 December 2007
Puppy Mills – 30 December 2008
Questioning -7 Feb 2006
Quiet or Sneaky? – 16 October 2007
Quotations - 20 Apr 2006
Rape, By Any Other Name, Is Still Rape! – 28 April 2009
Rats – 20 September 2008
Raunchy Ranches – 9 April 2007
Real Food for Thought – 21 January 2009
Recycling Body Parts – 9 September 2008
Reform the March of Dimes – 27 July 2007
Re-introduction of Animals: A Bad Idea – 25 July 2006
Religion – 8 December 2007
Religion and Character – 17 September 2006
Resistance to the Truth – 16 May 2007
Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc. – 8 May 2008
Retreating Rather Than Advancing – 17 March 2008
Revelation - 24 Feb 2006
Revelation – 14 January 2007
Rewarding Criminals – 8 January 2008
Salmonella in the News – 30 August 2007
Satan’s Minions Win a Battle – 14 November 2006
Scapegoating – 6 July 2006
Selective Psychopathology? – 9 May 2006
Self Destruction – 27 June 2007
Selling Out – 3 July 2006
Selling Out Health in the Media – 27 September 2007
Senseless Waste – 31 October 2008
Serial Killers or Scientists? – 21 August 2007
Sex and Violence – 5 September 2006
Shark Cartilage – 11 July 2007
Shark Oil or Snake Oil? - 7 Mar 2006
Shark Oil / Snake Oil: Hucksters Won’t Give Up! – 1 September 2006
Skin Trade - 16 Feb 2006
Skirting the Truth – 27 November 2006
Slavery – 6 April 2008
Snake Oil Promoters – 26 August 2006
Society of Sociopaths – 30 January 2008
Some Thoughts on Vivisection – 26 March 2009
Sound Familiar? – 3 June 2007
Spay and Neuter – 7 December 2006
Spinal Cord Injuries – 18 April 2008
Spiritual Blindness – 28 January 2008
Spiritual Intelligence – 16 February 2008
Spring and the Meatout - 20 Mar 2006
Stop Baby Monkey Torture – 5 February 2008
Stumbling Blocks – 10 January 2008
Superstition – 13 June 2008
Support S.A.E.N. – 6 February 2008
Teaching Children Kindness – 21 July 2008
Tell Youth the Truth – 3 October 2007
Temporal and Eternal Life – 31 January 2008
Thanksgiving Day – 23 November 2006
That’s Funny? – 21 July 2006
The Amazon – 13 January 2007
The Animals Voice Magazine – 28 September 2006
The Best New Year’s Resolution – 1 January 2008
The Bottom Line – 14 December 2008
The Business of Religion – 25 November 2007
The Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting – 8 June 2008
The Criminals Dictating the Laws – 6 March 2009
The Disconnect – 10 May 2006
The Disconnect – 10 June 2007
The Disconnect – 20 November 2007
The Emotional World of Farm Animals – 30 August 2006
The “Either/Or” Mentality – 14 July 2007
The “Either/Or” Mindset – 15 July 2006
The Escalation of Violence – 8 August 2006
The Father of Lies - 5 Mar 2006
The Golden Rule – 28 December 2008
The Great Ape Protection Act – 5 June 2008
The Holy Spirit's Prompting - 9 Feb 2008
The Humane Charity Seal of Approval – 25 January 2007
The Humor of Dan Piraro – 5 July 2007
The Longest Struggle – 17 August 2007
The Lord’s Prayer – 20 February 2008
THEN SILENCE - 2 Apr 2006
There Ought to Be a Holiday… – 3 March 2007
The Search to Justify – 30 June 2007
The Slaughtermen of Bassatin - 4 Mar 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (continued) – 11 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 12 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 14 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 15 October 2006
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) – 17 October 2006
The Smell of Death – 7 February 2007
The Truth Will Set You Free – 11 October 2008
The Value of Life – 20 July 2007
The Watchdog – 13 January 2008
The Whale – 13 December 2006
The Wheat and the Tares – 20 March 2007
They Know Not What They Do – 3 June 2008
Thin Ice – 2 January 2007
Thought for Today – 2 October 2008
Thought for Today – 19 October 2008
Threatened: Your Right to Speak for Animals – 12 November 2006
Tigers – 14 August 2006
Tigers (continued) – 15 August 2006
’Tis the Morning after Christmas – 26 December 2006
TO A WATERFOWL – 23 June 2007
Today’s Thought – 16 December 2008
Tokenism – 31 March 2008
Tom Regan – Empty Cages - 19 Mar 2006
Too Many Lobbyists? - 6 Mar 2006
Torturing a Bull for Saint John – 31 May 2007
Traditions of Treachery – 3 August 2008
Transformative Prayer – 28 January 2009
Transporting Food Animals – 30 July 2008
Trivializing the Truth – 22 June 2007
Turkey – 26 November 2008
Turkeys – 22 November 2006
Turkeys – 25 January 2008
Turning Away From The Truth – 13 July 2007
Ultimate Betrayal – 7 September 2008
“Unclean Spirit” – 24 January 2007
Uneven Playing Field – 1 September 2007
United Poultry Concerns – 13 August 2007
Valentine’s Day - 14 Feb 2006
Veal – 20 December 2008
Vegan Cats and Dogs – 18 February 2009
Vegan Shopping – 19 March 2007
“Vegetarian is the New Prius” – 21 May 2008
Violent Video Games – 4 August 2006
Vivisection – 21 August 2008
Was It Worth It? – 24 November 2007
Water Scarcity – 18 August 2006
Water Shortages – 7 November 2008
Well Said! – 1 February 2008
We Will All Benefit – 3 May 2006
“What Can I Do?” – 6 September 2007
What Is “Normal”? – 2 December 2007
What Would Jesus Think of Present-Day Christians? (Part 2) – 12 July 2006
Wheat and Tares – 3 December 2007
When “Humor” Isn’t Funny – 26 November 2007
When Religion Teams Up With the Devil – 31 July 2008
Where's the Beef? - 1 Apr 2006
Wholeness? – 11 January 2007
“Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” – 23 January 2007
Who’s the Psychopath? - 22 Apr 2006
Why? – 10 February 2009
Why Aren't You Vegan? – 18 March 2007
Why We Don’t Eat Eggs – 23 January 2008
Why Vegan? – 27 January 2009
Wildlife – 9 January 2009
Wildlife Betrayed – 15 October 2007
Wildlife Watch Inc. – 12 June 2006
Will Tuttle, Ph.D. - 2 Mar 2006
Words of Wisdom – 26 February 2008
World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (WLALW) – 14 April 2009
You Call This Journalism? – 20 May 2007
Zoos – 20 May 2008

 

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