Barbaro Updates: 28 -29
Update 350: Barbaro had another comfortable day (monday). I just spoke to Peter Brette, who had spoken to Michael.
Update 345: This morning's update will again be delayed. Michael is still in Saratoga I think, returning today. I imagine I will know something by mid morning and be able to post then.
Update 344: We have seen Barbaro coverage in the UK, in New Zealand, and now Japan: Sympathy for a racehorse. This article talks about the rationale for the sympathy directed towards Barbaro as the world is seemingly full of other tragedies. The conclusion: ( note from Journal author: Will be posting some comments on this article later today. While the last paragraph gives this editorial a hint of some compassion and understanding, this writer here will be responding as I get my thoughts and reactions a little less "reactive")
Barbarophilia is certainly not logical. And it is sentimental, outrageously so. But here's a thought the anti-Barbaro crowd seems to have missed: Compassion isn't an either-or proposition. Interest in the fate of an injured horse in Pennsylvania doesn't preclude concern for terrified children in West Java or Baghdad or Tyre. Very likely, it's the same warmhearted people caring about the lot of them. Even if it wasn't, you can't legislate the flow of sympathy.
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