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Showing posts with label frauds and scoundrels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frauds and scoundrels. Show all posts
Thursday, December 15, 2011

A Sincere and Comfortable Conviction

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Some years ago I found this parable quoted in Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World . It's from The Ethics of Belief by the mathema...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

"Lack of Any Useful Purpose"

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The use of rubber hands and creepy dead-eyed dolls and other witchdoctory in the process of "temperament testing" dogs in pounds a...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

I ... don't understand the difference

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What Michael Vick and his apologists, including Nike and Subway, don't get. Putting on a nice sweater is not the same thing as being ni...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

No Second Chance

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Portrait of the fan and his pit bull dog Reposting this entry from August 14, 2009, for the benefit of new readers, Subway, BET, and Nike. S...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Memphis Sinking

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If you check out the sites in the blogroll to the right, you may also have been experiencing a daily dose of abject misery via Shirley Thist...
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Three Cups of Dog Shampoo

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Back in March, while Japan bled and scoundrels found ways to make money off of it, I published this post , cautioning good-hearted people to...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

It Can't Happen Here

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Dear Readers of Raised by Wolves: Please read the second part of my December 29 post before commenting, linking, or forwarding this post. ...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Food/Feed Part One: Nitrogen is Nitrogen

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The students at Sheep School (aka classes offered in conjunction with the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival ) were a mixed lot: a few experi...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

On Notice

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One thing I really like about Blogger, Wordpress, and some proprietary blog software is the name-links. Commenters can choose to set up a li...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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Ooh, remember show dog handler and winner of last year's Betty Crocker Cocker Cookoff , Mary Wild? Remember how she got a light tap on ...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Sioux City, IA: Still Vicious

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Devoted wolf cubs will recall the clown car called Sioux City Council that kept reappearing on this blog and all over teh interwebz last sum...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Dismissed

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USA Board of Dog Searchin' Freedom

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How did Steven Colbert find out how SAR dog handlers get "certified?" And then employ such a clever metaphor with ophthalmologist...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Falling Through When the Whole Damned Thing is Cracks

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The USDA has released a report on its own puppy-mill inspection results and practices. You can download the PDF here . From the report's...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Time to Shower in Boiling Clorox

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Homeless, or hot property? Sitting here, freshly scrubbed after a wet, dirty day of SAR training, I started checking some ads in a regional ...
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Monday, May 3, 2010

Extraordinary Claims Require

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A great search dog is honored by the truth It's annoying being a pretty rational, empirical person who is frequently regarded as a so...
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