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...Mater who teaches Lightning the truth of any Lasseter film: friendship is family. "To Lightning," he says, "Mater represents pure friendship. Like a dog: 'I'll be by your side forever.'" (Mater was the inspiration of Ranft, whose story-tweaking genius infused every Pixar movie. Tragically, he died last August, when the car he was in missed a turn on that beautiful winding road, California's Pacific Coast Highway...
...least six times more populous than when the Dalai Lama knew it, and covers an area 20 times larger than the one square mile of old. A replica of a 40-meter-high mountain stands across from the Potala Palace, and the blue-glass shopping centers around Friendship Street, Happiness Street and Liberation Street would not look out of place in Las Vegas. The few traditional Tibetan buildings still left standing are like an artificially renovated "Old Town" in the middle of a modern metropolis...
That’s a far-fetched fear, however, and while there are a few bad eggs (white supremacy social networking, anyone?), the vast majority of these communities are just alternate places to find friendship and deepen passions. The most important of social networks, in fact, aren’t controversial at all—they’re the ones which center on us. They take the form of AIM buddy lists and email address books, and they’re comprised of our present friends and roommates, people we knew in high school, old teachers and mentors, colleagues...
...Montana is not the first state to consider dietary laws that discriminate on the basis of cross-species friendship. The sale of dog meat is already illegal in seven states and environmentalists in Hawaii are working hard to add another to the list. Legally, dogs are honored with the category of “companion animal,” presumably because they are considered cute, fluffy, and generally useful—if you happen to have lost a Frisbee...
Instead of pandering, legislators should have the courage to wash their hands of this nonsense. Declaring one’s undying friendship for the horse might look sensitive and progressive to the equine lobby, but enshrining such love in law is at best, sentimental and, at worst, ethnocentric...