{"id":46703,"date":"2020-10-14T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=46703"},"modified":"2020-10-14T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:49:40","slug":"animal-news-why-are-certain-people-in-maine-attacking-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=46703","title":{"rendered":"Animal news: why are certain people in Maine attacking animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Jennifer Finney Boylan’<\/a>s essay in the Times is entitled, “It’s Not Easy Being An Optimist in Maine.”<\/a><\/p>\n

As a New York optimist — it’s genetic, don’t yell stats at me, I can’t help it — I read her with a certain amused distance. An attitude of “oh, let’s see what’s going on up there in Maine.”<\/p>\n

And so I came to these paragraphs:<\/p>\n

Last month, in an act that one lawmaker called \u201cpolitical terrorism,\u201d unknown persons in Bowdoinham burned a sculpture<\/a> of a donkey. And over in Rockland, two police officers were fired<\/a> after beating porcupines to death with their nightsticks.<\/em><\/p>\n

The porcupine slayers don\u2019t appear to have been politically motivated, but the story feels very 2020 to me. These are dark days, man.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not<\/em> amusing.<\/p>\n

But then there’s this at the very end:<\/p>\n

As I stood there by the woodpile I heard a sound. I looked over to see a porcupine emerging from the woods. He was the fastest porcupine I ever saw. If you didn\u2019t know better, you\u2019d think he had the whole Rockland police force chasing after him.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was so funny, it was all I could do to keep from laughing.<\/em><\/p>\n

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