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Joel Stein--man, reporter, large yellow bird--has a job waiting for him here at PETA anytime he wants to climb back into the chicken outfit and hit the road as he did when he joined us for a protest in the chicken section of a Delaware supermarket [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 7]. The PETA Commando Chicks that Stein traveled with were so impressed with his stint as a renegade feathered protester that they have offered to personally help him "chicken out" and go vegetarian. ALISON GREEN, CORRESPONDENT PETA Norfolk...
...appear on seemingly every network morning show. He followed that with a lengthy chat with the reporters on the boat, headlined a rally in Quincy, Ill., conducted an onboard town hall meeting about tax reform, and I think sometime in there made and packed some very nice fried-chicken box lunches for a hungry press corps...
...course, Clinton will be back in the news before you know it (in fact, after He Left the Building, his motorcade stopped at a McDonald's, where POTUS ordered a chicken sandwich, and vegetarian Chelsea had an ice-cream cone), and he'll be campaigning for Gore in the fall, but as symbolism, it doesn't get much better than this (although we were still hoping for a real torch). As an added touch to emphasize that the transition had been made, the White House press plane broke down this afternoon (Gore's press plane had earlier suffered mechanical woes...
...There we learn that Cruz's choices are somewhat humble measured against the norm. Just two weeks, ago, for example, murderer Juan Soria wanted "chicken, three pieces of fish, burgers, pizza, fruit (grapes, plums, peaches, apples, tangerines), doughnuts, walnuts, chocolate candy bar, plain potato chips, picante sauce, hot sauce, salad with ranch dressing, Coke and Sprite" before going to meet his maker. A month earlier, Jessy San Miguel, who had killed four people execution-style while robbing a Taco Bell, had asked for "Pizza (beef, bacon bits, and multiple types of cheese), 10 quesadillas (5 mozzarella cheese, 5 cheddar cheese...
...There's no correct answer, of course. Killing people is a morally messy business. Whether we allow a man carte blanche with junk food menus and then have a medic administer a lethal injection, or we simply serve him that day's fried chicken and then shoot him in the head, the act is, in essence, the same. The difference, in the end, may have less to do with the condemned man's perception than it does with the way his executioners - and the society that orders them to kill its capital convicts - experience his death...