>Shane: Today in Barcelona a coalition of carniverous imbeciles,
>opportunists,
>and separatist demagogues farted in the face of a three-millennial
>Mediterranean tradition of celebratory taurine sacrifice by outlawing
>the *corrida* anywhere in Catalonia. The authors and supporters of
>this blasphemy all deserve, and will surely receive, the suitable
>penalty: their next two rebirths will be as bull-calf, once to be
>destined for the veal stall and once for the abattoir.
Conflating the issues of Catalan "separatism" and a ban on bullfighting is no more than idiotic parroting of news accounts with no filter.