We saw what this lack of common understanding can lead to this week at Madison Square Garden.
The "Best in Show" award could have gone to this magnificent animal.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Westminster Dog Show and the United Nations
OK, stay with me here. One of the things that I believe is illustrated by the UN is the difficulty of having a funtioning polity without a critical mass of commonly held assumptions about the nature of human beings and their relationship to the state and to each other.This is, I think, one of the principle arguments against the International Criminal Court and other more ambitious manifestations of supranationalism.
We saw what this lack of common understanding can lead to this week at Madison Square Garden.
The "Best in Show" award could have gone to this magnificent animal.
Or this one.
This dog could have won.
This one should have won.
But the winner was .....
this thing.
I'm sorry. But if you even think that's a dog, we can't live in the same country.
We saw what this lack of common understanding can lead to this week at Madison Square Garden.
The "Best in Show" award could have gone to this magnificent animal.
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Best in Show belonged to the akita. But that is a mere detail, your larger point about the small canine being otherwise well-taken.
Look more like an Ewok that needs a haircut. Damn you, George Lucas!
I boycotted the show this year. They ditched a pet food advertiser because of ads featuring abandoned mutts at shelters.
Bad Westminster!
For once, we agree. That pick of a Peke is not a dog.
That is a floor mop.
I was horrified. I would have gone with the dalmatian, a peppy pup (but well-behaved). I've not noticed the breed much before, but that one was a beaut.
My pick that didn't make it to the end was the gorgeous collie, silvery as well as caramel -- and only when I looked him up did I find out that he was born in Wisconsin. (The Wyndlair line, with a webpage where you can see "Vinnie" aka Wyndlair Cherokee Vindication.)
But you missed some good ads, Mitchell, with some wonderful pups, including my personal favorite pets, the shelties.
Anon
Agreed. There were any number of wonderful dogs that didn't make it through. There were a lot of Wisconsin dogs in the group finals. So many that the announcers felt compelled to notice it.
Some of the ads were good. George is making a radical democratic point. He's entitled.
One hundred thirty some years and only six hounds as best in show? The UN ought to look into THAT...
Anon
I loved the commercial "I could be great". Greatness was shown through champions,search dogs, therapy dogs,old dogs,pups,and loving family companions. Cried every time I saw it. And here I go again...for the dogs who don't get love,are waiting in shelters for their "person". I wish I could adopt them all.
You're not alone in being reduced to a "blubbering mess" by seeing that ad, according to this report from AdWeek -- with a link to the ad for Mr. Mitchell, who missed it.
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/purinas-latest-ad-leaves-dog-lovers-blubbering-mess-138309
I didn't cry, but I sure liked it, too. I liked it a lot more than the final round going to the floor mop.
Glad I am not alone. Went to read the article and like a fool watched the ad. Off to reapply the mascara. The bond dog people have with their canine friends is amazing.
Love you boys.
And Darwood was indisputably best in show.
Rick, Did the judges agree to support the dogs before seeing them?
Anon
In addition to hanging on to an inaccurate and thoroughly refuted implication, that's a little tacky, no? This thread is about dogs.
Good, then move.
I boycotted the show this year. They ditched a pet food advertiser because of ads featuring abandoned mutts at shelters. Bad Westminster!
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