Meet Mr. Happiness, America’s most patriotic dog and a rising star at the Republican National Convention.
Culture Buzz Over 40 rabbits have been have been mysteriously murdered since last summer in the Ruhr district of Germany . The animals which were brutally beheaded and drained of blood were mostly being kept out of sight suggesting that the killers maybe using Google Earth to track them down. Whether internet savvy Satanists are the culprits or just sadistic teenagers Germans are being warned to keep their pets locked away.
Politics Buzz In July of 2007, six gorillas were murdered, execution-style, in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Brent Stirton, the photojournalist who shot the intensely disturbing photographs of the slain gorillas, returned to the Congo with writer Mark Jenkins to determine the why this atrocity happened. The story complete with brutal militias, environmental disasters, corruption, smuggling, and the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide is covered in the July issue of National Geographic. and a documentary on the subject will air July 1st.
Culture Buzz The Costa Rican artist is the target of much controversy after he tied up an allegedly starving dog who some claimed died while on “display.” You know what else constitutes as art? Fingerpainting and decoupage, and neither of those things involve killing innocent creatures.