Editorial
Dec 31, 2013 Life, Death, and Taxidermy
Taxidermy could use a PR makeover. Unless you're a card-carrying member of the NRA, the ancient craft is kitsch at best. At worst, cruelty on parade. But when I visited the Natural History Museum last weekend, the horned specimens could almost pass as noble until I reached to the soulful, sad-eyed ape. What a buzzkill. Yet...