Na,

I take that back, of course: you do have the right. I just think you should give a little more consideration to how you exercise it.

And I don't know what "a banana wall" is, and you'll have to find someone else to take that up with.

Actually, I have, an ugly little mutt named Pinch.

But you're missing the point: you really don't have the right to criticize anyone for doing good where they find the need for good. Just be glad for the good. Look around a little and I'm sure you'll find other things to be "incredibly sad and depressed" about.

@Na:

Tell me: did you buy a pair of shoes in the past three years? How DARE you spend your money on shoes when there are people suffering in Iraq! Do you care more about new shoes than the sufferings of a war-torn people?

@Na,

Do you really not know the answer to your own question? He built a bond with the dog over the course of months, a bond that turned the dog from a feral animal to one that was so loyal that it would walk 70 miles to find him. Would you really say to this guy, “Listen, I’ve just crunched the numbers, and I think you should abandon this dog on the street and get one back in the US instead. This one might be killed, but it really would be more cost-effective my way.”

Maybe you would say that, I don’t know; maybe lots of people would. But I certainly prefer a world that has a little more tolerance for “impractical” devotion and compassion – particularly in the face of war.

Na, he did a good thing. Maybe you should spend more energy criticizing people who do bad things, instead of criticizing people who do good things that you don't think are good enough.

bean and Na,

Your logic is sooo wobbly. You’re both complaining that too many stray dogs are euthanized each year, but this guy adopted a stray -- and you don't create a stray by adopting one. I suppose your argument holds some water if you’re concerned only about the wellbeing of strays in the US, at the expense of all others, but that would seem a little odd. Dogs are dogs.

Too many Americans already have trouble seeing Iraqis as people – maybe you’re having trouble seeing their dogs as dogs now, too?

@bean:

No matter what you may think of the war, complaining about what our servicemen in Iraq do with their own time and money is selfish and offensive.

you know as much about where i live as you do about every other bit of nonsense you've spouted here. just because your relatives buy diamonds in lower manhattan doesn't mean there's a "diamond district" here; and just because lower manhattan is comprised of districts doesn't mean one of them is the diamond district. your evidence isn't evidence, and your logic is as feeble-mined as your opinions.

now i'm sure you'll come back with another addled response, filled with plenty of insults. knock yourself out, but i'm done.

c-dub's clearly got nitewhite on this one. i've lived in soho my whole life, and manhattan's diamond district—the only "diamond district" in manhattan—is on 47th. there's quite a bit of jewelry business going on in the area nightwhite's describing, but just because people are trading diamonds there doesn't mean it's a/the "diamond district."
nitewhite must think every he's in the garment district every time he walks past a Gap.