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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
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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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

A Helpful Note for Reporters: Why I Am Not an "Animal Rights Activist" (and neither is that guy, no matter what your lazy editor let you call him)

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Dear Journalists: Activist: An especially active, vigorous proponent of a cause, especially a political cause. Animal rights: The idea that...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A Profane Open Letter to the Leader of the Free World, and an Apology to My Readers

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Dear President Obama, You know I love you.* Now shut the fuck up. Okay, I gave this some time to cool, so I've now read that you did ...
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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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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

For those of you who are upset

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That the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a federal law that criminalized the creation, sale or possession of "depictions...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Oh, does that matter?

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From the Toronto City News : It's usually the perfect combination - a loving youngster and a gentle dog. But som...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Afraid to Ask What Happened to His Tail

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A bomb-detecting dog named Treo has been awarded Britain's Dickin medal for his wartime service. The US DoD doesn't permit animals ...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

I Didn't Read the News for a Couple of Days, And This is What I Find When I Do

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Andrew Joseph Stack was not a "tax protester." He was not a freedom fighter . (How many of the gormless Teabaggers who have proc...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Flip This Dog for Profit: Mandatory Edition

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HT to Fugly Horse of the Day . Here's how dogs pulled from the Los Angeles pounds are carefully "placed" by a charitable anim...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

What a Tyro Does ...

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... when faced with a complex, important task that she won't admit is far beyond her capabilities, requires a knowledge set she has not ...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Polishing the Turd that is Cranberry

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Professor Chaos has the cover story in this week's Pittsburgh City Paper . I don't care how purty a developer talks about "gr...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Photo Phriday: Whew -- that was close

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The turkeys are all still with us. Proof: Dale thrives. She is so fat she cannot cluck (she grunts) and I periodically have to extract he...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Dat's why we had to move to New Yawk for to get a Bill o' Rights

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HT to Shirley over at YesBiscuit for this story about free speech in the City of Brotherly Love. Kori Martin is a life long, die-hard Eagl...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Rochester Speaketh With Forked Tongue

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Sioux City pit-bull hater and vicious dog owner Aaron Rochester, author of that city's gormless breed ban, is going to let the city kill...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Gaia and Luna

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I was three years old. In the living room of my mother's cousin's home in Canada -- family vacation. How often did a toddler's p...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

They Also Serve

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National War Dogs Monument A deep injustice righted
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Becoming Ourselves, Again

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In which the blogger sincerely promises that this will be the last political post for a while, and commits to a return to dog stories, some ...
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Monday, November 3, 2008

Everybody but me has connections

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I can't get hold of a big-ass Obama yard sign, even though I live right next to a polling place . But the production crew down in the ba...
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Chelsea A. Arthur promises ...

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Free eggs for all the kids in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Kids, you know what to do:
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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Can we have international election monitors in Ohio?

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Concentrated Evil From the Gray Lady herself. OMFG. Will they be tying damsels to the railroad tracks as well? Drowning puppies? More from...
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