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    The Parrot

    A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.

    John tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently sayingonly polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to “clean up” the bird’s [...]



    john mcclueless

    I’m lucky. I have health insurance, and my employer pays 100% of the premium. We don’t cover spouses or dependents, but we’re a small company.

    I have used my health insurance much more than the average American: since I joined the company in late 1995, I’ve had a pregnancy, a c-section, a miscarriage that required not one but two D&Cs (that was a fun [...]



    No Pets Left Behind

    Nomad caravan $5000

    Sounds like a few things were learned since Katrina…

    No pets left behind in New Orleans evacuation

    Pet owners stood in line to register their furry friends. Then they were given a machine readable band to tag on to their pet, in case they became separated.

    Among the horrors of Katrina three years ago were dead dogs bobbing in the drowned streets of the [...]



    Use a leash to protect your dog or else

    Image by urbanwild via Flickr

    There is a letter to the editor in the Columbian this morning that deserves some clarification and further discussion. The letter is entitled, “Obey law and use a leash” and concerns leashing your dog:

    While walking along the busy river walk by Interstate 5 Bridge, I saw three dogs being walked by their owners, and none were on leashes. All were [...]



    Verizon Exploits Pit Bulls For Profit

    Update: Verizon did the right thing and pulled the ads:

    You signed the petition, Make Verizon Accountable. Can They Hear Us Now?, on Jul 21, 2008. The petition received 5083 signatures. The petition author, R. Brace and the ASPCA online community, has now closed the petition and posted the results:

    Message from the petition author, R. Brace and the ASPCA online community:

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    I have just [...]



    on patriotism

    I know we are 3 days past the Fourth, but since Patriotism is the cheesy plastic hurdle that gets reset in the mud of every election year, I have to get this off my chest.

    First, as an illustration of my larger point, it is typical – but nonetheless ridiculous – that so many on the right are lionizing Jesse Helms and expounding on the “appropriateness” [...]



    Humane Society Lowers Fee for Cats and Kitties

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    From KPTV:

    The Humane Society said it has decided to combat the feline overabundance by lowering the cost to adopt kittens and cats.Whereas it normally costs $80 to take home a kitten it has now been reduced to $50, and adoption fees for cats have been reduced from $50 to $15. For those who take home two cats, the second costs $10.All cats [...]



    r.i.p., sadie

    My in-laws had to euthanize their sweet yellow lab Sadie yesterday. She had developed, over the course of the last year or so, an intermittent paralysis of her larynx which left her struggling for air too often these last few weeks. And loving her as they did, they let Sadie go.

    For 13 years, Sadie was the one who greeted us whenever we visited [...]

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