…because there’s nothing on right now! It’s my computer’s fault, honestly! (After running Photoshop in Linux quite well for months, an update of WINE and/or Ubuntu has caused it to go wonky: items now disappear from the menu bar!) Well, that and the Winter blahs.

Here’s a chicken-related item, anyway:

It seems that Michael Beatty, a spokesman for the Queensland state branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was quite unhappy with a toy chicken:

“A product description on the Web site of Jaycar Electronics, a major Australian importer of toy, says: ‘Grab him by the neck and he will squawk and cluck like mad, flapping his wings and feet wildly as if he is really being choked.’”

Said Mr. Beatty, “What’s next? Burn a cat? Shoot a dog? . . . Children of that age are likely to turn around and try the same thing on their pet bird or even the cat or dog. Then they’re going to wonder why the animal fights back.” You can see the article over at Kevin, M.D. — it’s from 2005… perhaps they stopped making this rather suggestive toy?

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