Today is not only International Eat an Animal to Annoy PETA Day, it is also my 51st birthday. If any of my readers is at all inclined to use the PayPal or Amazon WishList buttons at the top of this page, today would be a particularly good day to do so. Not that there's ever a bad day for that sort of thing, of course.

I promise to spend the first $10 received through PayPal on meat -- maybe even raw meat, if I can get to my favorite sushi bar. I would broil a steak at home, but my oven doesn't go over 375 even after an hour of preheating.