Dog shows, Supreme Court: Second look

Letters to the editor:

Dog shows

The consequences of breeding dogs to suit breed standards extend beyond the show ring (“Bulldogs that can’t breathe: Our view”).

While breeds like the Great Dane, English bulldog, dachshund and Shar-Pei continue to pay for breeders’ arrogance with their health, every puppy born — often through inbreeding — means there is one fewer home for the millions of deserving dogs in animal shelters. Dog shows, in effect, hand down a death sentence.

Dogs aren’t modeling clay. They are complex, intelligent beings who want and deserve long walks, a warm place to sleep, a full dinner bowl and a rub on the stomach. They don’t care about how we look. We owe them the same.

Craig Shapiro, staff writer, PETA Foundation; Virginia Beach

POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media

Polarized nation

With the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, it is apparent just how politicized the Supreme Court has become.

One might wonder how impartial our nation’s system of justice is these days, and whether the term “settled law” actually exists.

There is no question that we are a nation divided! There is the 1%, those on the “take” from the 1%, and the rest of us.

Richard Hahn; Sequim, Wash.