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Amy Gutmann’s Unwanted Internet Fanbase

Amy GutmannThe perils of being a 21st-century university president: A possibly deranged individual named “Blayney” has posted a couple of creepy paragraphs on his personal blog about Penn’s Amy Gutmann. From his writings, it emerges that the author is a Penn grad and former priest who now reads Penn’s alumni magazine, well, only to look for pictures of her:

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Daily News Opinion Page Starting to Grasp at Contrarian Straws

meat_means_murder.jpgThe Daily News ran a column yesterday morning titled “We’re All Michael Vick,” by renowned animal ethicist Gary Francione, questioning the pervasive hysteria about dog-fighting thanks to the Michael Vick case. He goes on to question Nike and Reebok’s decision to drop Vick as a product endorser, considering that their sneakers are essentially the stitched-together corpses of dead cows. He questions whether burger-eaters can truly be outraged by Vick. Can they?

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