Melissa Maroff

Melissa Maroff
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Birthday
January 02
Bio
Melissa Maroff is a writer and animal advocate living in Los Angeles. She contributes to a variety of publications/websites, and is a former newspaper journalist, stand-up comic and TV monologue writer. Melissa would like nothing more than for animal welfare to become a mainstream issue that's not brushed under the rug.

Melissa Maroff's Links

Salon.com
APRIL 25, 2013 10:14AM

For All You ‘Haters’

Yes, what an amazing thing, the Internet; it exposes us to things we otherwise would never have been exposed to.

And of course, the flipside:

The dumbing down of society and the end of journalism, as we knew it.

The glorification of those who haven’t even earned it:… Read full post »

We've come to the end – and now we Democrats must finally let go of our grasp; the straws are a-slippin’. Republicans have laid out a most convincing argument that we run away from facts and vote with our emotions. Now it appears we are only running on desperation.

We were… Read full post »

OCTOBER 31, 2012 10:50AM

LA’s victory for the voiceless

Well, us “crazies” in La-La Land came through for the animals once again. Our city council just voted 13 to 2 to ban the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in pet stores. Now stores in Los Angeles will only be permitted to have pets from animalRead full post »

In what culture would Katie Holmes be considered a headline grabber?

Ours apparently.

Why? Still trying to figure it out.

Yes, she’s divorcing A-List Tom Cruise, who most will agree is a self-absorbed, pompous cad that jumped on Oprah’s couch and criticized psychiatry – while he b… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
JUNE 21, 2012 2:07PM

Overturned cattle truck inspires Facebook 'hilarity'

A Facebook friend recently posted as her status update: "I feel sorry for the little cows trapped on the highway, one cow keeps running away from the TV camera, I think he has warrants."

Rather than "thumb up" her joke as did 22 others, I searched online to see if… Read full post »

Just like not all Tea Party members are bad spellers – and not all democrats are socialists – contrary to popular belief: not all animal activists are "from PETA."

Believe it or not – there is a myriad of credible animal welfare orgs out there. Aside from the more widely… Read full post »

As an animal advocate, I say kudos to "Mob Wives," the reality show I most love to hate – on a weekly basis.

Wait – hear me out.

I can’t think of a finer caliber (pun intended) of people to be associated with the perpetuation of animal cruelty, whichRead full post »