It is late at night but I don’t THINK this is a hoax. “President Bill Clinton has been named PETA’s 2010 Person of the Year, the animal rights organization announced Monday. “Though he was famously a fan of Big Macs while in office, Clinton turned to a vegan diet this year for health reasons in …
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More Dog Morons
Sari from our Asia Group sent me a link to this (nearly) unbelievable story about New Guinea singing dogs. It begins: “The New Guinea Singing Dogs are the rarest in the world. Just 150 were known to exist before the bust at Randy Hammond’s home. Now there are 235.” So they “rescued” and neutered them. …
Dog Rant
The Lady With the Black Dogs (who happen to be “real” fierce staunch old- fashioned Afghans, rare today) sent me a note and a link, knowing it would provoke me and push all my buttons on genetics, bombast, and bullshit, not to mention on the kind of dog commercialism that makes AR types try to …
Border 2
Sign snapped by Jonathan Hanson S. of I8 in Arizona. (He lives off the grid S. of Tucson).
Modern Fears
From Schneier on Security: the winning entry in contest he suggested, a litany of modern fears, in the style of the late great Edward Gorey: The Gashlycrumb Terrors, by Laura A is for anthrax, so deadly and white. B is for burglars who break in at night. C is for cars that, with minds of …
5000 Year-Old Scammer?
David Z (see below) sent us the latest on Hari Scam and and, amazingly, it is even more ridiculous than what has gone before. “Among the mixed-bag films at Tribeca this year, Thorkell Hardarson and Örn Marino Arnason’s Feathered Cocaine was arguably the most mixed. Alan Howell Parrott, an American Sikh convert, introduced falconry to …
Decline and Fall
Via Patrick; an English ex- soldier will be sentenced to five years in jail for finding a gun in a trash bin and returning it to the police: “(His lawyer) also showed jurors a leaflet printed by Surrey Police explaining to citizens what they can do at a police station, which included “reporting found firearms”. …
Latest idiot news
A prep school destroys its library. “James Tracy, the current headmaster, finds the whole idea of a library, and the objects they traditionally contain, positively quaint. Speaking to The Boston Globe, he actually said, apparently without embarrassment, “When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books.”” They really did it: …
More on the Murder Hollow Bssetts
David Zincavage takes on Patrick Burns’ seeming complacence over the outrage. Also read the post below for a gut- wrenching description of what might happen to any multiple animal owner. Did you know that PETA’s new slogan is “There are NO good breeders!”
A True Tale of Bureaucracy and Individuals
I posted this as a comment below but decided it could stand as a post. Re “individuals” and beaureaucrats. When Libby was in Bozeman an INDIVIDUAL woman who disapproved of Libby’s keeping company with a hunter (really) got the town to go after our then third dog, as no one could keep three without all …