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PETA recently unveiled a new edition of its “Ink, Not Mink” ad campaign featuring everyone’s favorite DC-area gun enthusiast. (h/t Matt McHale)

NBA guard Gilbert Arenas scores points for animals and joins other legendary sports stars and celebrities by posing for PETA’s “Ink, Not Mink” campaign. Gilbert shows off his tattoos and bares his skin to help animals keep theirs.

Foxes, coyotes, minks, rabbits—even cats and dogs—are bludgeoned, strangled, and genitally electrocuted in the name of fashion. To avoid damaging their pelts, workers even skin some animals alive.

It’s pretty easy to loathe PETA for it’s extreme antics and it’s pretty tough to have a ton of empathy for Gilbert right now since the reason he’s now on an extended, unpaid leave of absence is not only because he made a single terrible decision by bringing guns to the lockerroom, but also because he inexplicably failed to grasp the gravity of the situation and mocked the whole incident in just about every form of media there is.

But, who know, maybe he’ll use the coming months to volunteer some more of his now-abundant free time and do some work that will help save a couple furry critters. How ironic would it be if the result of the Desert Eagle-toting PG being banished from the NBA is fewer animals being killed?

At least as ironic as that time I found that drawer of 10,000 spoons when all I needed was a knife.

The fact that you have “REPLICA” tattooed down the side of your arm and I have “DESERT EAGLE .50″ written down the side of mine should precipitate … you from abusing animals.

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…so that I could watch Hedo Turkoglu spit bars in a Turkish posse cut/cell phone commercial along with someone’s grandmother, three faux-mannequins rocking bridal gowns, a female yuppie, a balding escalator-runner, some mustachioed dude and a tuba trio.

Confused? So was Hedo. Just watch.

And in unrelated news, Bill Simmons has a very good, two-part rundown of the NBA off-season (Part 1 and Part 2) set to the backdrop of quotes from Almost Famous, which is inexplicably his favorite movie of the 2000s. As I put it on Eight Points, Nine Seconds:

Bill Simmons’ favorite movie of the 2000s is inexplicably Almost Famous. I mean, it’s a good flick and all, but better than City of God, Anchorman, Adaptation., There Will Be Blood, X2, Children of Men, No Country for Old Men, Snatch, Old School, Ocean’s Eleven, The Assassination of Jesse James, 25th Hour, The Savages, Zoolander, The Wrestler and Thank You For Smoking (among others)? Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, I suppose, but that’s a pretty odd movie to choose as a favorite, especially if you factor in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.

Yes. I just quoted myself.

Known Associates: 25th Hour, Adaptation., Almost Famous, Anchorman, Children of Men, City of God, Hedo, No Country for Old Men, Ocean’s Eleven, Old School, Raptors, Snatch, Thank You for Smoking, The Assassination of Jesse James, The Savages, The Wrestler, There Will Be Blood, X2, Zoolander

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