Crossword 335: Is That a Dog I Hear?

 

John Collier, Love Me, Love My Dog

 

I used to have a dog.  I loved him, and he loved me.  But since he left this sad world, I’ve found dogs annoying:  the little yappy dogs next door yapping their little yaps all the yappy day, the muscle-y dogs lunging at me on the sidewalks, the sweatered and bootee-ed stroller dogs that complicate my efforts to regard their owners with the respect I try to confer on all humankind—they annoy me.  Now, my old dog had his bad habits.  He would leave his scent everywhere. He would shed all the time.  He would try to kill the plumber.  But he had a deep, rich voice, respected pedestrians, would have scorned to wear bootees—was, in short, just a better dog than the dogs of other people nowadays. This puzzle is dedicated to his memory.

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Crossword 331: Or Else

 

John William Waterhouse, Magic Circle

 

It has lately come to my attention that the Internet is infested with a great many people who have wrong opinions and do bad things.  And I have to ask myself—and invite you, dear solver, to ask yourself as well—does not our use of the Internet render us complicit with these wrongheaded people and responsible for these bad things?  I fear it does. So I’ve decided that if the Internet does not remove these people within a reasonable amount of time, I will withdraw from it myself and invite you to do the same.  Reform, Internet, or else!

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