Afghan Interpreters

I left a message at the whitehouse.gov website, urging President Biden to take action to hasten the admission of Afghan interpreters into the United States. These are people who served beside American soldiers, and whose lives are now in danger; furthermore, if we abandon them, the rest of the world will note our betrayal.

A Laboratory Beagle

Tuesday’s Washington Post included an article by someone who adopted a beagle whose first four years were spent as an experimental animal in a laboratory, which understandably left him psychologically damaged. I wonder whether his suffering accomplished anything that is now saving human lives, or whether he was only used for routine and unnecessary tests, or to enable someone to publish an obscure scientific paper.