Would You Invest in a Zebra?
There are two ways to invest: horses and zebras. Horses are obvious. Zebras are obscure. To my amazement, many investors choose to invest in zebras. Not me. I am in favor of horses.
There are two ways to invest: horses and zebras. Horses are obvious. Zebras are obscure. To my amazement, many investors choose to invest in zebras. Not me. I am in favor of horses.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact
Kids from rough areas in New York City have found a home away from home on a 25-acre ranch in Queens, CNN reported Tuesday. Since 1994, the Federati...
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.
Karen Stabiner | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
The easy unplug is this: No devices while eating, period, ever, end of sentence, non-negotiable. The more challenging and glorious unplug is...
Posted 10.06.2009 | Impact
New York City is considering a bill, Intro. 653, that some believe will severely compromise the care of the city's carriage horses since it takes away...
Maria Rodale | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
No one wants to be forced to do anything or dominated or made fearful or intimidated or coerced. No one. Not a horse, not a person.
AP | SARAH LARIMER | Posted 08.31.2009 | Green
MIAMI — Someone is killing the horses of Miami-Dade County. Since January, police say at least 17 horses have been butchered, their carcasses l...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment
Florida investigator, author and owner of the site WebOfDeception.com Joseph Culligan has turned up a few tidbits on Debbie Rowe, the (ex-wife in name...
Karen Stabiner | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living
Imagine for a difficult moment that your young son, who is autistic, does not talk. His silence is so absolute that you begin to think he cannot talk...
Wendy Diamond | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style
Lucky and I dropped by the New York League of Humane Voters City Council event and listened to politicians jockeying for top-dog positions.
Deanne Stillman | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
In 1887, a troupe of horses crossed the Atlantic, sailing out of New York harbor as excited crowds looked on.
The Independent | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
By Chris McGrath Even Eden had its serpent, and yesterday the racing authorities twice introduced a sombre note of vigilance to an afternoon that oth...
Don McNay | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
When I go to the track, I don't look at the racing form, jockeys, past history or pick horses with funny names. I usually win enough money to pay for lunch.
Jane Minogue | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
"If we change traditional marriage, it's a slippery slope," said the man at the table next to me. "Soon we'll have people marrying animals." I'm not aware of any man-horse association that's lobbying Congress or state governments to allow bestiality.
AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.24.2009 | Home
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Unable to legally bring a supplement into the U.S. to make their horses more resilient, a Venezuelan polo team used anot...
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.22.2009 | Style
Still reigning, still smiling, after 56 years! The Glorious Queen Elizabeth Rose Who has worked harder or better, and so long, at a tiresomely t...
AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green
WELLINGTON, Fla. — Ladies in their spring dresses and men in casual linen suits sipped champagne and nibbled hors d'oeuvres as they waited for t...
Spencer Green | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy
Hannah: Staring at these grazing ungulates, I question my own identity. Are they better off masticating the dew-flecked herbage below them, unaware of the charnelhouse that awaits?
Michael Markarian | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green
We've seen time and time again that the animals' fate is intertwined with our own, and that addressing animal welfare policies helps to safeguard all of us.
Vicky Ward | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business
For all those worried about the hundred or so valuable show ponies stabled in North Salem by alleged fraudster Paul Greenwood and his wife Robin, here's an update.
Tri Robinson | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green
I had always thought of the Amish as being a people who weren't troubled with the cares of the outside world, especially those that were living as sustainability as this family clearly was.
Michael Markarian | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics
Every month, thousands of horses are crammed into trucks and shipped hundreds of miles to Canada and Mexico. There, they are slaughtered for food exports to Europe and Asia, where horse meat is considered a delicacy.
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A juror who vanished during Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial told the judge Monday she lied about her father dying and fle...
Loral Langemeier | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living