The Grumpy Vegan began to appreciate The New York Times reporter, John F. Burns, when he saw him interviewed on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer about the Iraqi war and read his reports in the paper.
My appreciation deepened of him on reading “What Cats Know About War”.
As The Times’s bureau chief, part of my routine was to ask, each night, how many cats we had seated for dinner. In a place where we could do little else to relieve the war’s miseries, the tally became a measure of one small thing we could do to favor life over death.
