You just knew “the lawyers” would jump right on the animals-being-allowed-to-sue bandwagon.
HT: A comment on a crudely named blog quoting my Weekly Standard piece on plant rights, The “Silent Scream of the Asparagus,” rather than the current article discussing Obama appointee Cass Sunstein’s support for “animal standing” to sue their owners in court. (Can you believe that sentence, and both articles, are not parodies?)
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