I’ve blogged before about my dislike of bullfighting and of the “sport” of hunting grass-eaters. Well the Festival of San Fermin, which takes place in Pamplona, Spain, is less than three weeks away, so Pamplona’s barbarous Running of the Bulls is back in the news.

Early in the morning of July 7, six “wild” bulls and herds of tame ones will be released to run the half-mile from the Santo Domingo corrals to the Bull Ring, where they will fight and die in the arena later that same day. The only compensation for the stampeding bulls is that they have a chance to inflict a little payback on the knuckleheaded monkeyboys who will attempt to race the route just ahead of them. ¡Victoria a los toros!

On the lighter side of needless animal cruelty, here’s a bit o’ wit from the last people on Earth you’d expect to have a sense of humor: PETA. On the 5th of July, two days before the Festival of San Fermin, they’re sponsoring the fifth annual Running of the Nudes in Pamplona. PETA promises that “this festive, cheeky event, [is] full of babes, not bulls.” To back it up, they have a page of “hot-to-trot hotties you could be partying with in Pamplona this year!”

Maybe, but I’ve seen the video from last year’s run and the nudes I saw merely confirmed Heinlein’s observation that “some people should wear clothes.”

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